Crime is the act of failing to honour rules and laws that govern an authority. Committing a crime usually leads to conviction. There are many crimes that usually go unreported, unrecorded, not followed through or even not able to be proved. Deviance on the other hand means violation of cultural norms which may also include formally enacted rules. There is a very close relationship between crime and deviance. (Holborn et al 2009: 16)
Crime
Crime can be viewed as a deviant behaviour which violates the current prevailing cultural/ ethical standards which prescribe how humans should behave. Criminalization is a procedure that is deployed by a ...