DEVIANCE AND STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONAL THEORY- ROOT THOROUGH ANALYSIS

Abstract

Criminology has their own style of reading the crimes and offences and their retributions. The deviance has been identifies as creating a violatory situation against the pre-set law and rules of general conduct. The paper has tried to study the concept of deviance and its interrelationship with structural functional theory so as to forward the conclusion that the criminology recognizes the roots of deviance based and rooted from structural functional theory.