WHAT IS DEVIANCE?

 

 

Deviance is the behavior that goes against the laws like stealing, violence and more which varies from time, place and setting. Deviance varies in time place and setting because in my country Nigeria a lot of things that we do, may be considered deviance in the United States. Like the way some of us take showers. In Nigeria some of the parents bath for their kids outside in public where everyone can see them, because not everyone have a private bathroom , it's either you sharing with the whole building or you bath outside in public. Which is now a collective conscience in Nigeria? If someone from Nigeria comes to the United States and bath in front of their property or even in front of a building it would be look at as deviance because it goes against the norms of the United States. In the reading "Race and class in the American Criminal Justices System” talks about the O. J. Simpson case and how whites have more share of wealth in our society.  O.j Simpson was able to buy himself and a good lawyer for defense because he was wealthy but if he was wealthy they came might have been different than what it was. If it was another black man with no money he might have lost the case and be prisoned. People that are poor and uneducated are automatically looked at as criminals. While people well educated and not really looked at with violence view.