Deviance

Deviance is refusing to follow the norms and breaking the rules, its kind of being a "bad girl" or "bad boy" or just simply sticking up for what you believe in. Sometimes people break rules just for the fun of it, to make their parents mad, to make a statement, to feel grown up, whatever the reason most of us just do it for fun. I must admit I have done deviant acts before, in highschool junior year I would skip class just for fun to hang out with my friends, I would talk back to the principal to make a statement as if saying "I do what I want." or just because I would be bored and wanted to do somthign fun. I never went as to do a crime though, a crime is a law that we break, for example selling cocaine, steeling, or killing another person doesnt matter what the curcumstances are. Although some things that are concidered crimes or deviant isnt realy a bad thing from our point of view- what may be legal in some places may be illegal in others. For example, in vegas people could walk around topless, yet in New York or New Jersey walking around topless is a crime and you could serve jail time for that.
I believe that in order to be a criminal or be deviant you need to know the rules, because sometimes we dont know the rules and are unaware of what we are doing, and we also need to learn the concequences, the people that are selling cocaine know that if they get caught they could be sent by to go to a rehabilation center, go to jail, and will have a criminal file forever. Other deviant acts such as speaking loudly in the library aren't as bad and dont have much concequence. But how would we know when breaking a rule is being too deviant?