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Primary and Secondary Deviance

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Primary deviance is an initial violation carrying no lasting consequence for identity; secondary deviance is the conduct that follows from being labeled deviant.

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A first offense passes unnoticed; once labeled, a person is treated as an offender and may act accordingly.

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The sequence runs label first, altered identity second — that ordering is the theory's whole claim.