ABSTRACT
The reactions to acts of environmental pollution give an excellent chance to gauge the extent to which "deviance" produced as a direct result of industrialization has been transported to other less developed countries. Where the proportions of the less developed countries criminalizing the act were less than Yugoslavia and Italy, yet America was the great exception, with only 27.8 percent criminalizing the act. As one would also expect, the family played a much less important role in perceptions of deviance for the two developed countries in comparison to Sardinia, Indonesia, Iran and India with the family probably playing the most important role in Sardinia and India. The next most general measure of deviance perception is that of the perceived seriousness of the acts. Robbery was defined as criminal by all country samples except the Sardinians, which is what the subculture of violence theory would predict: that a criminal subculture will perceive criminal behavior differently from the larger culture.
