Deviant Behavior That Violate Social Norms And Laws Of Society

Deviance is behavior that violates social norms and laws of society. Crime is a type of deviant behavior that violates the law of society. People that are more likely to commit crimes are low class and uneducated individuals. People that do commit crime tend to have no morals or sympathy for other people’s feelings. This can be the direct result of their upbringing or the environment they grew up in.

There are two types of crime in society white collar and blue collar. People that commit white collar crimes are typically well educated, rich, and powerful. People that do commit white collar crimes are politicians, high level drug dealers, mobsters, computer hackers, etc. White collar crimes tend to deal with a large sum of money and are …show more content…
The man walked into the bank with a gun and demanded 20,000 dollars. This is one example of deviance and is a blue collar crime. This is a blue collar crime because it was violent and it was a street crime. This was considered deviance because even though he wanted to help his daughter, he went about it in the wrong way. Even though what he did was wrong the man felt that it had to be done for his daughter. Now some people say they should freed the man. In a video online the man asks his lawyer when he was going to get out. This shows that in his mind he felt he didn’t do anything wrong, there is something wrong with his conscious in my opinion.
To sum up, there are two different crimes blue collar and white collar crimes. I hope you have a better understanding as to why white collar crimes are harder to prosecute in court. White collar criminals tend to get better treatment in prison because they are not in there with violent offender. The prison puts them with lesser violent criminals with similar crimes as them. Also, I hope you learned the different between white collar and blue collar