A group of protestors appeals their arrest on the grounds that police officers overstepped their authority. The case goes to court. This scenario best illustrates which function of deviance?

Deviance clarifies rules

Explanation: Deviance can be described as any behavior that violate social norms, and is usually warrant disapproval from the people in the society. However, deviance can either be criminal or non‐criminal. Furthermore, complex nature of deviance allows norms vary considerably across groups, times, and places.

Deviance has four social functions:-

*Deviance clarifies our cultural values,

*Deviance helps to define our morality.

*Deviance helps to unify society.

*Deviance promotes social change.