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Chapter Eight: Deviance and Social Control

Chapter Eight: Deviance and Social Control

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A. Emile Durkheim stated that deviance, including crime, is functional, for it contributes to social order. 1. Deviance clarifies moral boundaries (a group's ideas about how people should act and think) and affirms norms. 2. Deviance promotes social unity (by reacting to deviants, group members develop

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