People Disagree About Whether Smoking Marijuana Should Be Considered a Crime,especially

question 46

Multiple Choice

People disagree about whether smoking marijuana should be considered a crime,especially since some advocates claim it may have therapeutic value in treating cancer or pain associated with cancer.This highlights which dimension of John Hagan's classification of deviance and crime?

• A)severity of the social response
• B)perceived harmfulness of the deviant or criminal act
• C)degree of public agreement about whether an act should be considered deviant
• D)the invariability of social definitions of deviance and crime
• E)none of these choices

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