Question

Explain the difference between primary and secondary deviance. Give an example of each type of deviance to support your answer.

Answer 1

The term deviance defines an act of vioeting any norms or rules. This is often caused by difference in behaviour, trait, belief, etc. Deviance is a relatice fact since it depends on the person's point of view who witness the violation.

Primary deviance refers to a series of dishonest activities that generally doesn't make any big harm to any of the party. For example, Maria steals products from stores she visits.
Secondary deviance refers to the situaton where primary deviance causes a social harm that affects numerous people and in most of the cases it create larger harms. For example, if someone is having a criminal behaviour such as murder or robbery, which has a social impact, will be taken care legally and these will be called secondary deviance.