In the nineties the world and society has been faced with many different crimes and
social deviancies, most of which have been as a result of rebellion and a form of
expression. Whether it is to force a change or to create something new deviance is at a
strong high. At the dawn of a new millenium some of society feel the need to express
themselves in proscriptive norms and “leave our mark” on the world.
The words “deviance” and “crime” are two words often mistaken for each other.
Crime is a unlawful activity while deviance is a behavior that is different from that of the
accepted social or moral standards. Deviance most of the time is the “gateway” to crime.
A strong example of this would be the recent exploits at the Woodstock 99 music festival.
In the September 2nd issue of Rolling Stone magazine the author Kurt Loder writes about
the transgression that takes place when the music festival turns sour. He writes about how
amid the music and peaceful motto of the festival some individuals feel the need to be
malicious and irregular. He goes on to tell that when the band Limp Bizkit performed the
song “Break Stuff” the violence took place. There was an “unending blizzard of empty
plastic water bottles sailing through the air and bouncing off skulls further down front,
across the field people were ripping up the plywood barriers...and launching big, splintery
crowd-surfing boards atop a sea of upsteached hands...The bonfires roaring out of control,
the looting, the explosions, the whole stupid riot. Festival security, such as it was,
collapsed in the face of this sudden war-zone situation.” There was also accounts of
different and unusual sexual activities. Kurt’s interpretation was like most others. This day
that was supposed to be a social gathering in a peaceful atmosphere turned into a battle
field of abnormal de...