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B.A (Hons) Health & Applied Social Studies

Crime and Deviance.

Assignment title; To what extent does crime and deviance threaten the fabric of society?

By Shaida Parveen.

Tutor: Mike Kneafsey.

Assignment Deadline: 5/01/06.

Question title: To what extent does crime and deviance threaten the fabric of society?

The essay will attempt to outline to what extent crime and deviance threatens the fabric of society.

A crime is defined when a person breaches a law conducting a serious offence, which is punishable by the crown court. Deviance or becoming deviant is all concerned with challenging and breaking rules. Deviance is about being different. The definition of deviant in different areas and in different societies may have different meanings. What may seem deviant in one society may be perfectly normal in another society. In many societies rules are managed and constructed by people who are in positions of social control. In order to identify what is deviant there is need of social control. Social control refers to formal and informal means in which society responds to deviance through the social order. Social control is maintained by social control agents, like teachers and police