Practice mode Social Control

What must happen for a deviant act to be classed as a crime?

Correct answer D. The state must undertake a political process of criminalising it

Explanation

An act becomes a crime only when the state, through law-making, formally prohibits it; deviance that is not written into criminal law remains non-criminal.

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