2 reasons why crime and deviance is found in all societies
- Not everyone is equally and effectively socialised into the same society, so some people are more prone to deviate.
- Particularly in complex and modern societies since there is a diversity of lifestyles and values. What one culture regards as deviant, another might not.
Durkheim suggests that there is a tendency to normlessness or anomie in modern societies since the rules are becoming weaker and less clear cut.
Probably because modern societies are so complex.
Means that a shared culture or collective conscience is weakened which results in higher levels of crime.
Durkheim see's anomie as a major cause of suicide in modern societies.
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