The answer to this question is <span> anomie; collective conscience.
According to emile durkheim, an action could only be considered as crime if the majority of people in a society agree that the action is unacceptable.
So, the cause of it usually either because the situation forced the perpetrator to do it, or because the perpetrator felt that he/she does not belong to the society, so he/she wouldn't be bound by the rules</span>

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3 years ago

"you will, no doubt, be hard on us rioters tomorrow morning—but that 300-dollar law has made us nobodies, vagabonds and cast-out

Ksivusya [100]

The statement above was done during the conscription in the civil war.

<h3>The American civil war</h3>

The civil war was fought between the Northern Union army and the Southern confederates of the United States.

The reason for the war was due to the fact that the south had refused the abolishment of slavery in their region. Instead they threatened to secede.