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In traditional social thought and social practice deviance has placed itself outside politics, secured in a neat division between ‘welfare matters’ on one side, and ‘political science’ on the other. It is a state of affairs which David Matza found ‘hardly believable’: that one could conceive of the regulation of disorderly behaviour and crime independent of the workings of the state.1
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Pearson, G. (1975). The Historical Object of Deviance: King Mob. In: The Deviant Imagination. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15573-6_6
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