I decided to write my final journal entry on Chapter fifteen, “ Deviance and Crime.” I am someone who is fascinated in aspects of crime which is why I decided to study criminology at Saint Mary’s University. Throughout this chapter, I’ve learned that deviance involves breaking a norm which is not the same as breaking the law, and that crime involves breaking the law. As I started to read more into this, I started to learn various terms and definitions of things that I did not know before such as , “Social Stigma,” which refers to extreme disapproval of a person or group on socially characteristics grounds that are perceived, and serve to distinguish them from other members of a society ie: someone who has a mental illness, gay or lesbians,
