 Dear students, in this module, we are going to discuss the conflict perspective and its point of view about the deviant behavior. Conflict perspective particularly talks about the class system and its relationship with the criminal justice system. So it suggests that deviance and crime are a result of social inequality and power struggle between different groups in society. For example, in conflict perspective, there are two particular classes, the proletariat class and the bourgeois class. These two classes struggle for continuously resources and as a result of this struggle, the deviancy occurs. This is because the class-based system is based on an inequality, so the potential Marxism or conflict perspective says that the class-based system is the potential source to create deviant behavior. In other words, in any class-based system, it is impossible for the deviant behavior to be produced. In Pakistan, for example, social inequality and marginalization of certain groups can lead to higher rates of crime and deviance in those communities. If you look at your society, if you pay attention to it, you will be able to see why crime is being committed. Street crime increases, as the price increases, poverty increases, street crime increases, theft increases, murders increase. So, overall, it creates a direct link or connection with deviancy. Similarly, we see that if your justice system is embedded in it, this potential inequality and the privileged class treats it differently than the non-privileged class, then the crime rate increases and people take that justice in their hands. In the public spaces, the incidents of lynching, in which if a thief is caught stealing, then people burn him alive. These are extreme cases in which people get a belief from their justice system because they think that this is a class-based justice system that is made for a certain privileged class and treats them differently. The non-privileged class has no hope of getting justice in this system. The criminal system may also perpetuate social inequality, such as through discriminatory policing and sentencing practices. Addressing the social inequality and promoting equal access to resources and opportunities is important for reducing deviance and promoting a just and equitable society. So, it's again a food for thought for you that if you look around you and you see that how our justice system works and whether it is a class-based system or not, you can see some examples in the recent past, you can explore them, you can see them in the newspapers and you can try to figure out how the social justice system produces inequality when it is a class-based system. And as people feel that this social justice system is class-based, the crime rate increases. So, this is a food for thought for you and you can develop a kind of assignment for yourself by having a content analysis of recent newspapers.