For this week's topic of deviance and crime I'll be focusing on the article, "The Saints and the Roughnecks", by William J. Chambliss. The article was particularly interesting because it touches on a topic that anyone from a small town can relate to. There are groups that are viewed as being inherently good, based on their social origins and how they act within a public setting. In the same regards, there’s the group that can never do anything right within the eyes of the community because they don’t match the definition for the prim and proper individual. This then initiates the self-fulfilling prophecy ideology which claims that once an individual is labeled as a deviant they tend to fall further into the habits of one who is deviant. In
