What are some examples of Consensus Crimes, Conflict Crimes, and Social Diversions?
In The Disreputable Pleasures: Crime and Deviance in Canada (1977), John Hagan has suggested that in addition to recognizing that social norms establish a basis for the definition of deviance, deviance is usefully conceptualized as a continuous variable. To develop his conceptual model of deviance, Hagan uses three related measures of the seriousness of different forms of deviance. These measures include: the degree of social agreement about wrongfulness; the severity of social response that is elicited; and the societal evaluation of harm. According to Hagan, this conceptual model may be usefully visualized as a pyramid of social deviance and social control. Each of the three axes of the pyramid represents one of Hagan’s measures of the seriousness of deviance. Moving from the apex of the pyramid to its base, there is a gradual decline from high to low for each of the measures. For example, the axis that corresponds to the measure of social agreement to wrongfulness moves from a high
