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Social
Control and Responses to Variant Behaviour
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Introduction
to the Module (Hub)
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Documents
Included in this Crime
and Deviance Module
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It
is less about how you define them as about who has the power to make the
definitions
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the newspaper editorial writers wonder why people commit crimes, sociologists
wonder that people conform as much as they do. |
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The
main difference between crime and deviance other than crime lies in the
social response to the acts in question. |
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rules against some behaviour is codified in our formal legal system, they
are called criminal, while the vast majority of acts outside the prescribed
limits stimulate responses that are informal and not codified. |
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The
difference appears to lie in our distinction between gemeinschaft
and gesellschaft
using the terminology of Tönnies. |
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