Crime & Deviance

• Crime is any form of action that breaks a written law in society e.g. murder or robbery.

  It results in conviction sentencing either prison or community service.
• Deviance is behaviour that violates social norms, but not necessarily laws. It can be seen as breaking the unwritten rules of society
• Social construct: patterns of behavior based on norms and expectations in society. These change over time e.g. attitudes towards homosexuality as a cause.