Essays on Deviancy

Introduction

The paper focuses on the project management problems that faced Rony’s project. The project was commissioned by The Custom Ronworking Company. The president of the company, Emelia Carpenters, contracted W.Easly Associates to conduct a post-project appraisal of Rony’s project. The project involved expansion of the company’s production facilities. The expansion included expanding the manufacturing and production residence. The plans were occasioned by a mini boom experienced in the commercial construction field in NSW, Rony’s hometown. A decision was reached to go ahead with the expansion and Spencer Moneyworth, the vice president; Finance and Administrator were ...

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History of Labeling Theory 4 Critiques of Labeling Theory 5 How Do Current Criminal Justices Policies Demonstrate an Application of the Theory to Practice? 7 Reflection 8 Conclusion 9

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Labeling Theory Introduction Labeling theory is the model of the ways, in which the self-distinctiveness and the performance of various people might be assessed or predisposed by the expressions applied to define or categorize them. This report will explore the strengths and weaknesses of labeling theory, along with the history of the labeling theory and its critiques. This concept is related to the notions of self-fulfilling insight and typecasting of ...

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Sexual behavior and homosexuality are the sensitive issues among other issues in the world of religion. Every society has moral rules that regulate sexual behavior. However, the rules differ from society to society. At times, to its intents and purposes, the rules necessarily and sufficiently need some specific study and comparing for rational precision. At this event, the comparison of the sexual behavior of different societies with the religious beliefs displays some distinctive connection between the social structures and morals. Power argues that the monastic rules served to ensure the proper public performance of monks because it is the ...

Policing, either through service or force, should not be momentously substandard for particular social groups and the rest. The statistical evidence by prominent researchers have indicated that individuals seen as white have a more suitable experience of police in comparison with individuals whose decent lies in Africa or Asia. Current shift in emigration patterns have called for a reconceptualization of the perception of individuals belonging to ethnic minority groups. Indeed, it is a matter of difference that has turned out to be predominant in modern societies (Cao, 2014).

Current Statistics and Historical Developments

These kind of conceptual shifts have worsen the cordial relationship between ...

In the article “Standards of Practice and Care in Forensic Mental Health Assessment. Legal, Professional, and Principal Based Consideration” the authors discuss three key principals that according to the them, "should help minimize arbitrariness in the legal decision-making process through promoting thoroughness, consistency, and impartiality." The goal is create a sense of consistency among forensic analyses.

In forensics, it is very important to produce legal sound consistent data. The use of reliable data is paramount in forming opinion. There is also a deep need to provide third party sources to insure that information is valid. Strategies are required for ...

Application of the Criminal Justice System

The criminal justice system operates on a very wide-range perspective. Aside from the scope, the same system also works on a case-to-case standards that requires the arresting officer, the investigator or any criminal justice agents’ capacity to make best and appropriate judgment. In a statistics released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it suggests that in 2009, the crime rate in the United States is has been decreasing significantly from when the agency has stated recording crime rate in 1980’s. In fact, from 13,403 in 1980 down to 10,639 in 2009, overall crime rate had been reduced (U.S. Census ...

“Young Goodman Brown,” “The Birthmark” and “Ethan Brand” are all notably published works from the dark romanticism sub-genre era published by Nathaniel Hawthorne that have lead characters embracing the concepts of morality and isolation. Hawthorne is an American author well-known mostly for his writings in this particular classification of stories from 1839 to 1860. Hawthorne typically incorporates such topic as isolation, sin, and the devil in his writings. These topics can generate and fester sinister feelings and ideas of alienation, guilt, and gloom. Hawthorn draws influence from multiple aspects of his life, for example, incorporating the use of his ...

Essay

Investigate two possible solutions to low life expectancy in the developing world Life expectancy refers to how long an average person lives within a particular nation. This allows life expectancy to indicate whether a country will have people living as long as the age of 80 or will it have people that will die as early as 28. This difference may seem drastic but this difference is highly visible in terms of developed countries and developing countries. Therefore, it is obvious that developing countries face an extremely difficult task in identifying problems to such low life expectancy . However, with a rapid ...

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The symbolic interactionism theory is, in my opinion, far from simplistic. It actually explains the fact that like all other rights or wrongs, crime and deviancy are subjective social constructs. This is the main reason the associated negative sanctions fail to curb the behaviour. Gay people, for instance, simply choose to ignore perceptions in some societies that their sexuality is deviant, because they know these perceptions are subjective and possibly wrong. While for instance murder is criminal in many modern societies for instance, there are communities that killed their own as human sacrifices to gods. Similarly, soldiers may kill ...

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Throughout the history of psychological discovery, psychologists have proposed many ideas. One such theory, named by Herbert Blumer, is referred to as Social Interactionist Theory. Through the work of Blumer, as well as the efforts of George Herbert Mead, Blumer’s teacher, and Mead’s cohort, Charles Horton Cooley, the trio was able to devise an idea that explained our social selves and the world we inhabit. Unlike psychologists before them, Mead and Cooley attempted to explain human development and interaction as it occurred in small groups, rather than attaching people as one single unit. The theory also attempted ...

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The main rationale, which explains the emergence of the Chicago school of criminology was to provide a different meaning of how crime and related behavior. Notably, the earlier theories of crime only focused on a few reasons that explain criminal actions; the school was for an idea of providing a socialization aspect, which would improve on the past explanation of crime. Categorically, the Chicago school of criminal thought formulated various theories, some of which emphasized that people are not born bad or good; instead, the environment around them, and the social situation influence their behavior (Vito & Maahs, 2012). Apart from that, ...

Evil is often confused with what we consider “deviant” behavior.Deviance is any behavior that does not fit within social norms (Ferris & Stein, 2011). Even if something is determined to be deviant in one culture it doesn’t mean that it is deviant in all cultures (Ferris & Stein, 2011). Although there are many theories, labeling theory seems to be especially accurate in the understanding of deviancy and evil. Labeling theory works to combine different theoretical perspectives, like conflict theory and symbolic interactionism (Ferris & Stein, 2011). This theories goal is not to label one person as deviant or not, it ...

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Introduction Criminal offenses have social underpinnings. One who commits a particular crime may know that his act is against the law, but several social factors may have led him to push through. Given that criminal acts happen in almost every setting where humans thrive, it is essential to examine the subject matter more closely for one to understand it better. Understanding crime paves way for its prevention in the form of socially held mechanisms such as upbringing and law enforcement, on one hand, and self-help procedures, on the other. Given ...

Social Processes and Crime

Differential association theory has a number of similarities with social control theory and strain theory. All these theories highlight deviance on the basis of a person’s social relations. Differential association theory moves away from the biological view and pathological perspective by ascribing the cause of engaging in criminal activities to the social circumstance of people. Conversely, differential association theory does not cause any risks to the benevolent handling of individuals perceived as criminals. Differential association theory has a view that emphasizes an individual is converted into a delinquent due to due to extra definitions complimentary to law violations over unfavorable law contraventions ( ...

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The line between good and evil is removable, permeable, and perceived to be an illusion. Evil acts entail exercising power with intentions of influencing people psychologically, physically and perpetuate crimes against humanity. However, human beings have the inherent nature of being responsible; responsibility could be a situational force in behavioral contexts that influence people’s way of thinking and behavior. The rhetorical and social situation analyzed in relation to the given parameters in this essay is bullying. Therefore, aggressiveness and hostility in human character (bullying) is a coping mechanism of individuals faced with threatening and dehumanizing conditions in their surroundings.

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WANT TO STICK OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB?

AN EXPERIENCE OF VIOLATING THE DRESS CODE

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WANT TO STICK OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB? AN EXPERIENCE OF VIOLATING THE DRESS CODE

The social norm I chose to violate is that of observing a dress code in certain occasions and specific events or gathering. I chose this particular norm because I observe that it is an area for disciplining young people and it seems to be quite a challenge to succeed in such discipline. Having parents who are keen in refinement of behavior, appropriateness of attire and conduct in public gatherings, I ...

The consideration that many make with regard to individuals who choose to have body art, tattoos and piercings is that they are scary or, in some way, less sophisticated than those who do not. Historically speaking, this is an extremely modern day controversy as originally, in western culture, tattoos were prominently associated with naval men but today, they are more commonly an aesthetic decision to indelibly mark the body with an image. Although many claim that their tattoos represent various things of importance to them, they lack the discreetness of their naval predecessors and body art often covers a significant ...

Abstract Deviant behavior is the behavior that fails to cope to the widely-accepted cultural or social norms. For instance, murder is a form of serious deviant behavior because it violates the cultural norm which indicates that killing another human being is unacceptable. As far as the study of deviance is concerned, there are a number of approaches towards it, coupled explanations as to why deviant behaviors occur, and how they might be addressed. The initial stage is to understand and acknowledge deviant behavior as a study of social and cultural norm. As far as cultural diversities are concerned, norms vary widely. ...