Assess the view that crime and deviance is the result of labelling, the media and public opinion

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Assess the view that crime and deviance is the result of labelling, the media and public opinion

Crime and deviance happens in all cultures in the world and there are many reasons too why people turn to crime or deviance. This essay is going to be about determining if crime is the result of labelling or other social explanations. They are discussed in the sociology of deviance because they are trying to find why people commit crimes from two perspectives, Interactionist where they are walking in the shoes of the person, or a structuralist's approach where they are having a bird's eye view of life. There are differences between the term crime and deviance. Crime is the idea that any action which is considered to break the rules of society with an example being murder. On the other hand a deviant act is a much broader line defined as behaviour which moves away from conventional norms and values. However, some things like murder and rape are both considered criminal and deviant, however crime and deviance is relative changing in relation to time, place and culture. This means that crime and deviance is socially constructed for example created and defined