Adaptation and Change
Durkheim- all change starts with an act of deviance
Individuals with new ideas, values and ways of living must not be completely stifled by the weight of social control.
There must be some scope for them to challenge and change existing norms and values and in the fist instance this will appear as deviance.
Thus neither a very high nor a very low level of crime is desirable
- Too much crime threatens to tear social bonds of society apart
- Too little crime means that society is repressing and controlling its members too much, stifling individual freedom and preventing change
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