This essay will discuss how the ideas of deviance have changed throughout time. The views on deviance and therefore crime have changed a lot during the history of mankind. We can consider various reasons for this change for example the disappearance of the importance of religion, wars, changes in political or social structures. With the changes on the views on crime the system of law changed as well. Law books needed to be introduced, so that officials could agree on a universal concept of who should be punished and how this process should be carried out.
Deviance does not necessarily mean one commits a crime. It is in connection with the infraction of some universally agreed laws (Becker 1963). Not all forms of deviance are called crimes, however, we could call all crimes as deviant forms of behaviour. For instance murdering someone is a
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With this being his most famous and most cited thought of Marx, we should not be surprised on the fact that people, who practiced religious activities were transported to training camps, also known as gulags in Siberia, and needed to suffer for what they believed in. There are many debates on whether religion is a positive or a negative driving force in humans life, but no one should ever suffer any kind of physical or mental torture because of what they believe in. On the contrary, we could say that people suffered the same kind of torture for centuries, as countries were ruled by the principles of the Bible, and if they acted against these principles they were punished for what they did, how it was written down in their holy book, the Bible. In spite of all of these, with the rising of scientists, Enlightenment and other sociological theories, religion could rationalise in people’s brains, and could take it’s normal place in the world, when it only consisted of pure belief, the fact, that people had principles to live and die