Running head: EXITING A VICIOUS CIRCLE OF CRIME 1 EXITING A VICIOUS CIRCLE OF CRIME 3 Exiting a Vicious Circle of Crime Arroxxiccia Thomas Walden University Exiting a Vicious Circle of Crime Abstract In social sciences, there are various approaches to describing and explaining various social phenomena, or rather, social problems. Some of the approaches emphasize of the need of social structures based on the factors and contexts, others contemplate the importance of agencies which consist of institutions, organizations, and individual versus collective actors, while others conceptualize the connections between structure and agency in the framework of various systems of approaches. This paper focuses on the different levels on which different forms of deviance are exhibited and get to be normalized from the social point of view of the society and its social actors (Fenwick, 2001). Further, the paper elucidates the need to apply social entropy theory and trust on the authority to curb the expansion off such “abnormities.” This project digs deep into the failure to sanction criminal activities due to non-collaboration between the society members and the authority leading to the spread of the belief by everybody that crime always pays off, hence the vicious circle of crime (Fenwick, 2001). The aim is propose better potential ways of abandoning it as well as creating conditions for well-structured society. Similarly, the project is an expansion of the research perspectives of deviant cultural patterns and social structures which stem from criminal activities. In so doing, the project will culminate on the importance of directing power to the political elites and the nongovernmental social actors towards realizing this potential reside. Also, the project analyses the responsibilities that must be taken by the authorities for cases of criminal activities in a well-ordered society. Keywords: crime, social entropy theory, vicious circle, deviance, well-ordered society Reference: Fenwick, M. E. (2001). Book Review: Ethnography at the Edge: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research. Criminal Justice Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/073401680102600114 ...

1. Running head: EXITING A VICIOUS CIRCLE OF CRIME
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EXITING A VICIOUS CIRCLE OF CRIME 3
Exiting a Vicious Circle of Crime
Arroxxiccia Thomas
Walden University
Exiting a Vicious Circle of Crime
Abstract
In social sciences, there are various approaches to describing
and explaining various social phenomena, or rather, social
problems. Some of the approaches emphasize of the need of
social structures based on the factors and contexts, others
contemplate the importance of agencies which consist of
institutions, organizations, and individual versus collective
actors, while others conceptualize the connections between
structure and agency in the framework of various systems of
approaches. This paper focuses on the different levels on which
different forms of deviance are exhibited and get to be
normalized from the social point of view of the society and its

2. social actors (Fenwick, 2001). Further, the paper elucidates the
need to apply social entropy theory and trust on the authority to
curb the expansion off such “abnormities.” This project digs
deep into the failure to sanction criminal activities due to non-
collaboration between the society members and the authority
leading to the spread of the belief by everybody that crime
always pays off, hence the vicious circle of crime (Fenwick,
2001). The aim is propose better potential ways of abandoning
it as well as creating conditions for well-structured society.
Similarly, the project is an expansion of the research
perspectives of deviant cultural patterns and social structures
which stem from criminal activities. In so doing, the project
will culminate on the importance of directing power to the
political elites and the nongovernmental social actors towards
realizing this potential reside. Also, the project analyses the
responsibilities that must be taken by the authorities for cases
of criminal activities in a well-ordered society.
Keywords: crime, social entropy theory, vicious circle,
deviance, well-ordered society
Reference:
Fenwick, M. E. (2001). Book Review: Ethnography at the Edge:
Crime, Deviance, and Field Research. Criminal Justice Review.
https://doi.org/10.1177/073401680102600114