CRIM 12000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Financial Planner, Legal Culture
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Draws people together in mutual condemnation, thus promoting community cohesion, removes bureaucratic red-tape and thus provides quicker responses. Without deviance, we would be a society of clones with hemophiliacic minds, incapable of dealing with the variation around us. Deviance and diversity are mandatory to confront and survive in the tumultuous world in which we live. Answer. it is the quintessential, eternally un- resolvable query. It depends on who you ask and when you ask and who is in power and who is out of power, and even then, the answer will be different tomorrow than it was today. Can we eliminate crime: yes, by having the legislative bodies fail to function (substantively, yes, by have the police fail to function and report (procedurally). So yes, crime can be eliminated technically as crime is just a label given to activities and that label can be added or removed as the interests of the powerful change, but, that is not the point.