"Committing a crime violates social laws, while deviant behavior violates social norms and rules" (Sociological Theories of Crime - July 27, 2021).
Having a deviant behaviour may or may not lead a person to commit a crime. Can anyone help me understand how does having a deviant behavior lead a person to commit a crime? How much push/power a person with deviant behavior need before he/she commits a crime? Please provide citation for any references (sociology journals, government websites, law journals, courts documents, other reading materials).
I am specifically looking for what stop these people from committing criminal acts. If they passed the hurdle (not bounded by the factor that stops them), what stop them to commit only one criminal act (self-reflect, intervention and punishment by the law come to my mind)? If there are some studies done regarding this for any type of criminal acts, I would like to read them.
There must be something regarding people committing crimes with no discernible deviant behaviors.
Reference: https://www.nu.edu/blog/sociological-theories-of-crime/
A delinquência está diretamente relacionada a diferentes comportamentos desviantes que são geralmente relacionados à juventude. O sociólogo Anthony Giddens define desvio como uma não conformidade, mas como um conjunto de normas que são aceitas por um número significativo de pessoas em uma sociedade. No entanto, o comportamento desviante não pode ser associado apenas aos que comentem crimes, ou os delinquentes, uma vez que todos nós em algum momento acabamos adotando algum comportamento que não condiz com as condutas normativas. Sendo assim, é preciso que tomemos cuidado para não generalizarmos todo comportamento desviante como criminoso.
The difference may not lie in the person but in society. At what moment does particular behaviour become to be considered as so deviant that it is a crime? For example, slavery was considered normal and acceptable by “society” for centuries and then became a crime. That moment was a different one in different countries. Keeping a slave was within the Netherlands was deemed illegal there in the 14th century and in some Middle-east countries it only became forbidden in the 1980s. The crime of rape within a marriage is not considered a crime in countries where men have legal ownership of their wives and daughters.
Mental disease is the same, someone is deemed mentally ill if their behaviour deviates too much from what is culturally appropriate. Having visions or hearing voices can be perceived as pathological in one society and be perceived as having special powers in another.
When both mental illness and criminality are both defined by the surrounding culture, you cannot look at the individual only to determine when they cross that boundary if that boundary is set up by society. It is the old question of mad or bad, and even sad.
Deviant is behaviours that violets the norms and rules of society whereas crime violate formal criminal laws.
A controversial topic: it's not necesary to have deviant behaviors or neurologic disorder to commit a crime. A regenerative culture can be the way to an armonic society; a multidisciplonary overview is really mandatory in the present of society. The ONU has a method called C.E.P.T.E.D, that involves to all community to avoid the crime.
Sustained deviant behaviours can lead to crime.While committing a crime may not necessarily be as a result of a medical condition (e.g mental disorder) someone who is diagnosed to have defiant behaviour is most likely to be suffering from a medical disorder. However both are anti-social and anti-community.
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