Howard Becker famously said, “Deviancy is not a quality of the act a person commits, but rather a consequence of the application by others of rules and sanctions to an ‘offender’. Thus which of the following would emphasize this meaning?
Deviant behavior is behavior that people label as such.
Deviancy is obvious to label and easier to identify.
Deviant behavior is behavior that laws so label and society just follows the leader.
Society just follows the mob and doesn’t have any control of how someone is labeled.
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