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What Is Crime, What Is Deviance? Reflections on the Development and Contemporary Relevance of Sumner’s Notion of Social Censure

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That there are no universally accepted definitions of the terms ‘crime’ and ‘deviance’ within the field of criminology may surprise those with only a passing acquaintance with it. Instead, those engaged in the criminological endeavour are faced with a wealth of debate over what intuitively seem like straightforwardly ‘common sense’ notions.

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Moxon, D. (2017). What Is Crime, What Is Deviance? Reflections on the Development and Contemporary Relevance of Sumner’s Notion of Social Censure. In: Amatrudo, A. (eds) Social Censure and Critical Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95221-2_11

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