What is the difference between deviance and crime? Provide an example of informal and formal deviance.

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Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World

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Answer the questions below in detail for full credit:

1) What is the difference between deviance and crime? Provide an example of informal and formal deviance.

2) Explain Emile Durkheim’s arguments on deviance crime. Do you agree? Why or why not?

3) According to the labeling theory, what happens to an individual when they are labeled deviant?

4) The differential association theory argues people learn deviance through significant others. Provide an example of this.

5) Conflict theorist assume deviance promotes inequalities in society? How so?

6) How can we find crime statistics?

7) What are victimless crimes? Provide an example.

8)Why are African Americans more likely than whites to fear walking around their homes at night?

What is the difference between deviance and crime? Provide an example of informal and formal deviance.
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