The concept behind rational choice theory is that crime is a function of a decision-making process in which the potential offender weighs the potential costs and benefits of an illegal act.

When Saul is instructed to interrupt a school basketball game by running on the court naked while singing the nursing rhyme "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", and if he did comply, his behavior will best illustrate a social norm deviance. A social norm deviance means, from the word deviance, an individual's behavior is attitude is violating or violates the form of social norm which Saul is doing when he disturbs a basketball game.