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Social Deviance Of Tattoos

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Tattoos have been around a long time, and have had various meanings attached to them. They have been marks of ownership, and also badges of honor. In ancient times slaves would be marked to show who owned them, criminals might be marked to show people their crimes. In this century Halters’ SS, would tattoo prisoners capable of work with a serial number for identification purposes. The total institution they find themselves trapped in leaves no choice in receiving these tattoos. People who elected to get tattooed were expressing deviant social behavior, violating social norms. Only delinquents, prisoners or gang members would be seen with them. In the streets and in the jails and prisons we still had a deviant element of society using tattoos
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