How did your actions affect the deviant person or persons

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1) Why do you think that deviance and crime loom so large in popular culture and in our collective imagination, especially at a time when crime is generally trending downward? Try to provide some concrete examples when you answer this question.

2) Think of a recent time when you used informal negative sanctions. To what act of deviance were you responding? How did your actions affect the deviant person or persons? How did your reaction help maintain social control?

3)Thinking of the ways in which our sense of deviance shifts over time, what are some things that were considered deviant or criminal in the past that are now considered relatively 'normal'? Conversely, what are some things that were 'normal' in the past but are now considered deviant or criminal?

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