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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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| While 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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| Where 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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