Title: Deviance in Current Events: Analyzing a Contemporary Instance of Social Norm-Breaking

Instructions
1) After reading Chapter 6, think of an act or instance of deviance in current events. First, define deviance using our book. 2) Then, briefly describe a deviant act covered in the news– current or historic (such as an odd disturbance, a crime, protest, etc.). 3) Which social norm(s) did the act break? Was a law broken? Did the act bring about a change in the expected behavior (may be challenge any existing laws)? Or, did the act and the response to it reinforce these existing sanctions?
The book is authored by Dalton Conley (2021), and is titled You May Ask Yourself.  It’s the 7th edition, published by W.W. Norton.

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