Crime & Deviance - created from Mind Map

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Definitions & Explanations

Functionalism on Crime

Crime

Deviance

Biological

Social Construction

Relativity

Any act which breaks the laws of society

Speeding, parking on yellow lines

Behaviour which moves away from conventional norms and values

Queue skipping, burping

Rape, murder, paedophilia

Lombroso (early criminologist)

Criminal characteristics

Created and defined by the people of a society

Non-universal

Crime and deviance is not inherently wrong

Changes in relation to time, place, age, and culture

Polygamy, homosexuality, suicide