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Deviance: Unexpected Rules And Norms

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Deviance is behaviour that is violating the expected rules and norms of the society while deviants are the people in a society that assume what is considered a deviant identity. According to Box, The two are causally linked because deviance is committed by deviants (pg. 1, 1989). They are then conceptually linked because it is assumed that people who commit deviance could be classified as deviant because of their behaviour. According to Steven Box the problem with causally and conceptually linking deviance and deviants is these the deviants were seen as defective members of society, who some believed needed to be corrected through a tough minded view known as penal sanctioned punishments. Since the problem is internal they cannot return to

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