Vandalism as a Negative Deviance

American Heritage Dictionary defines "vandalism" as the "willful or malicious destruction or defacement of public or private property." Here we note that there are two major acts which characterize vandalism: destruction or the destroying of public or public properties, and defacement or the spoiling of the appearance of any surface area.
The destruction of private property as a negative deviance may have already been treated as such as early as the birth of the science of economics, of purchase and sale of property. Through economics, we were given the sense of ownership over materials we…