# Crime and Deviance

- By: Antoniette Aizon
- Publisher: Madera Community College
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://workforce.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Corrections/Crime_and_Deviance_(Aizon))
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to crime, deviance, and the criminal justice system, beginning with definitions of deviance, social control, crime data, and major biological, psychological, sociological, and criminological theories of criminal behavior. It examines the history and development of criminal law, policing, punishment, corrections, courts, sentencing, incarceration, and juvenile justice, while exploring different types of crime.