... crime offer by (Cesare Beccaria 1738) (Lombroso1876) and (Freud 1941) that crime is an individual issue. He argue that while obligations, values, attitude, and beliefs may appear to be individual, these social facts exist at the level of society as a whole i.e. society extract pressure on the individual(top-down approach) rather the bottom up approach offer by labelling theory where the individual is extracting pressure on society. He use his suicide study as an example to strengthen his argument. Furthermore he claim that these facts exist as a result of social interactions and historical developments over a long period of time and come from "varying collective representations and diverse forms of social organization" (Hadden p.104). As individuals who are born and raised in society, these social facts are learned through socialisation ( i.e. through the family, school, media etc) and generally accepted.( http://uregina.ca/~gingrich/o26f99.htm) if individual go according to these set ...

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