SOCI 213- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 30 pages long!)
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Everything that has to do with something else is irrelevant. Maybe we don"t need a field called deviance; maybe we just need criminology. Maybe it"s something about having victims/not having victims. Maybe it is not necessarily something illegal; maybe it is something that departs from the norm. Some people think the field is not relevant/important anymore. When we talk about crime, we are talking about a recognized violation of a social norm that is legally prohibited. Deviance is the larger phenomenon and crime is a branch of deviance. The answer is no, and it also isn"t true that everything that is criminal is also deviant. So, we can say that crime is a overlaps of deviance. For example, you could download music and that is criminal but it is not deviant because everybody does it. It can be thought of as a venn diagram where there is a large overlap of both circles.
