The aim of this article is to present Durkhiem as one the first sociologist who had an empirical approach to deviance. His work on different topics such as Suicide, Rules of Sociological Method and Division of Labor in Society deal with the problem of deviance. It has been tried to present a summery of his approach to deviance on the basis of these different works. Generally speaking Durkheim relates deviance to social structure and social integration. He believes that deviance happens within certain structures. He also pays attention to human needs and characteristics and the dialectical relationship between man and society. Therefore, deviance is basically a social phenomenon and society is held responsible for behavior of man. Every society must be able to meet the physical as well As the psychological needs of individuals within that society. It must be added that Durkhiem believed that deviance is functional in societies, the least of which is that deviance can bring about social change.

Crime and deviance comprises those actions which are deemed so damaging to the interests of the community that the state determines that it must take a direct role in identifying and acting against the criminal and deviant. When we consider the prevention of crime, we are looking at a set of event joined only in their proscription by statute. The view that society must by radically changed for crime control to occur may also be found among some practitioners within criminal justice, but there it has coexisted with the more popular rival that the greatest prevention possibilities lie in changing the hearts and minds of established or potential offenders by control or reform. All theories of crime are also theories of crime prevention. Specific primary prevention measures would continue to by applied as they became available. By the analysis of fast changes in crime rates, numerous crime prevention successes would have been identified, common lessons learned, and the morale of crime presenters enhanced.

Globalization has the potential of threatening the traditional cultures and spreading the norms and values of global or Western culture. This is considered as a critical issue for Iranian society that experienced a revolution on the basis of moral and religious values and has proclaimed being distinctive from dominant global culture.Meanwhile, some evidences indicate the violation of traditional and official values by some parts of society; particularly this has been increasing among the youths.This paper addresses the question if there is a relationship between having contact with globalization process and tendency towards global culture and consequently cultural deviancy.This question has been examined by the data which were gathered from a sample of 376 students of Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, in the spring of 2007. The data indicate having contact with globalization process has a weak positive relation with tendency toward global culture and a positive medium relation with cultural deviation. Nevertheless, the relation between tendency to global culture and cultural deviation is relatively strong.Among the four dimensions of global culture, as defined by Berger, the respondents show a strong tendency towards those which refer to market economy and citizenship rights while their tendency toward the dimension that relevant to Western life style compared to other dimensions, was low. This may support the idea that for studying the expansion of global culture there should be a distinction between its universal and human aspects (such as market economy and human rights) and its particular and Western aspects.

Background and objectives: One of the most important t issues which is regarded as disrupting scial order in the modern Iran is the fact that adolescents do not comply with traditional norms governing the society which is also called "cultural deviance". Ass well, social trust is a notion related to social order, lack of which, will engender in the emergence of social ills and crises across the community. In other words, for social scientists, there is a close relationship between social trust and cultural deviance in so much as the emergence of deviance among people in the society denotes weakening of social trust. This article seeks to address this issue empirically.Methodology: This research was a survey and performed by questionnaires. The statistical population of this study consisted of 6000 students at Islamic Azad University at Gorgan Unit. The sample size was considered 361 people. To test hypotheses, Independent T tests, variance analysis and Pearson correlation coefficient and to test the research model regression analysis were used.Findings: The extent of social trust among students studied was 3.85 out of 5. This figure suggests level of high social trust among the research population, As well, level of cultural deviance among students was 1.9 out of 5. Results of research hypotheses indicated that the main research hypothesis stating the existence of relationship between trust and cultural deviance was confirmed. Here, given the kind of reverse relationship between the two variables, one can infer that an increase in the level of social trust, level of their cultural deviance will fall and reduced social trust will increase their cultural deviance.