According to Durkheim, how can crime be beneficial for a society?
A) Crime ensures that the state will maintain a status quo of industrial production.
B) Crime's existence implies that a way is open for social change and that the social structure is not rigid or inflexible.
C) Crime alleviates anomie by creating alternatives to the normalcy of social life.
D) Crime controls surplus populations.
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