While deviance is a behavior that departs from the rule, Crimes are specific deviant actions that break the criminal law. There are many different sociological approaches to crime and deviance. Some of these theories focus on the crime while others focus on the criminal. Some of the major sociological theories include the strain, social learning, control, labeling theory. These theories do differ from one another in several ways they focus on slightly different features of the social environment, as well as different accounts of why the social environment causes crime. These sociological explanations help us understand the social patterning of crime, and the different changes in crime rates, and they also lend themselves to possible solutions
