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The Division of Labor in Society
Emile Durkheim’s theory that crime is a normal aspect of society is based on his belief that crime itself serves a social function. That social function is to support or reassure the social norms of a society by the fact that crime is considered going against the norm. Put simply, crime is simply deviant behaviour that goes against social norms.
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Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor quickly brought the United States together in order to defeat a common enemy. The deviant act of the Japanese pushed America to unite and fight the Axis Powers.
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Social Learning Theory
Ronals L. Akers argued that, although criminal behaviour is acquired through social interaction and modeling, it is maintained over time through the actual consequences of criminal acts, both social and nonsocial.
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Ted Bundy at Large
Ted Bundy is one of the most famous serial killers in history. On January 14, 1978, Bundy broke into Florida State University's Chi Omega sorority house and bludgeoned and strangled to death two women. His notoriously deviant murders went on for years until the police finally caught him and sentenced him to death on January 24, 1989.
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September 11th Terrorist Attack
Emile Durkheim suggested that societies need deviance in order to know what seemingly normal behavior is. The terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 on New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked by terrorists and the result was the United States’ citizens’ display of strong patriotism and unity.
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