Crime is a normal part of society because it is outright impossible to have a community without crime. In our text, Durkheim argues that deviance is so critical to society that if people stopped engaging in these activities then we would have to redefine acts that are acceptable now as deviant. Since we live in a world full of diversity no two people are alike and anyone slightly different would be considered a criminal character. With that being said crime is healthy in a society and without it we would never achieve our goal of punishing and curing criminals. Since crime has tremendously increased from the nineteenth century it shows normality because it is closely connected with the