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Pfohl Deviance

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In chapter 1, Pfohl analyzes laws, and in turn, deviance is decided by the supposed ‘winners’ in the battle to control deviant acts. The winners are seen as the people who are seen as good and normal, while the losers are stuck in having to do what the winners want so they do not become outcasts or deemed deviant. In one takes into consideration that the winners are the state the losers would be going against the state when committing acts that are considered deviant by the winners or in this case the state.
Mundie comes to similar conclusions in many of the definitions of crime explained in his writings. Definition four states that crime is an ‘injury of the state’, under this definition crimes are socially harmful, which means that crime
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