Deviant behavior is behavior that members of a group or
society seen as a violation of their standards. Definition of abnormal behavior
depends on the group. Even if an action or behavior is treated differently
depending on the time, place and social situation.
There are psychological and sociological explanations of
deviance.
Psychological theories focus on the personality of the
individual. Some genetic and biochemical abnormalities lead individuals to make
deviant behavior and crime. Sociological theories focus on forces outside the
individual. Differential association theory argues that people learn different
acts through socialization; structural strain theory argues that deviance
arises when Conformity to fail generally accepted norms of behavior in order to
satisfy the legitimate, culturally approved you. According to control theory,
each person is naturally inclined to deviant behavior, but to satisfy most of
our criteria for effective systems of internal and external controls. These are
the ones that are less effective control differently. Another sociological
theory called labelling theory suggests that the behavior is different if only because
of the people labelled .In general, biologists and psychologists view
individual while sociologists look out of the individual explanations for why
people commit deviant behavior and crime.
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