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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