Steven Box 1983 Power, Crime and Mystification (Tavistock), p. 121

Nearly one hundred years ago, Durkheim wrote that suicide is ‘merely the exaggerated form of common practices’ and that it ‘appears quite another matter once its unbroken connection is recognised with acts, on the one hand of courage and devotion, on the other of imprudence and clear neglect’. This relatively simple, but radical idea – that there is considerable overlap between deviance and convention, rather than the former being distinctly different and opposite to the latter – inspired later generations of sociologists…[A] similar lesson can be obtained from considering how ‘normal’ sexual encounters merge imperceptibly into sexual assaults of which rape is the most serious, and how the former provide the ingredients out of which the latter can emerge.