Essays on Deviant Behavior

The idea of moral panic is one of the many socialist ideologies that have been subject of discussions and critical research by social scholars and scientists over the years. Moral panic has had its fair share of all-inclusive definitions, but perhaps the most revered one by social researchers is Stanley Cohen’s (1972). He indulges us with the idea that moral panic is sort of like an idealized scar in society, an unsettling social occurrence that offsets the socio-cultural balance, often triggered by what he labels as folk devils. In simplistic terms, it is the feat of social unrest ...

Introduction

The desire to conform to the norms is what makes the foundation of a civilized society. Social order, for instance, is a desired attribute that is founded on established written and unwritten rules that are being observed by most people within a society. Deviation from these established rules is considered as undesirable and people who deviate are considered as having abnormal qualities or malfunctioning (Merton, 2002, p. 672). There are instances, however, wherein some people are observed to deviate from the standard pattern of human behavior. This deviation has captured the interest of many social scientists and have been ...

In this week’s reading we examined the subject of the medicalization of deviance. While it might sound complex, the idea behind the medicalization of deviance is quite simple. In essence, it refers to the recatholicization of an uncommon behavior from being labelled or understood as deviant to being thought of as an illness. Accordingly, rather than classifying a person who is afflicted with the uncommon behavior as deviant, which can produce a wide range of negative reactions and actions from people not so afflicted; the person is deemed to be ill. Accordingly, as an illness is widely seen ...

The movie “Monster” leaves a viewer with the controversial thoughts about the focus of the film. On one hand – it is more than obvious that Aileen Wuornos, the former prostitute, has been justly condemned to the death sentence, taking to the consideration all the murders she has committed. On the other hand – Aileen Wuornos’s conscious has been harmfully injured after being repeatedly raped by her father’s friend. This so – called “event” has marked the beginning of her hate towards men. The catalyst, which has led to much deeper mental disorder and to murders as a disclosure of ...

A sexual offender is a person who has committed a sex crime, which is punishable by law. Sex crimes, on the other hand, are determined by a particular area’s laws and jurisdiction and they determine whether a person’s actions fall under sexual offense or otherwise. In many countries, sex crimes are in fact major crimes which are kept side by side with other crimes like physical assault or breaking traffic rules. While some crimes committed by sex offenders are strictly sexual in nature, others might be those that are a violation of those who are chosen by ...

A Report on Internet Misuse in Business Firms

Business organizations rely heavily on internet enabled systems in the present age. This has necessitated unrestricted use of internet in business firms, especially in creative area like graphic designing. This report addresses the same issue in a graphic design firm where the author works as an account manager. The firm is doing well and currently has a strength of 14 employees. However the owner is concerned about the unregulated use of the internet which allows the employees to download almost anything or view inappropriate web content in the workplace. The concern of the owner is justified because the irresponsible ...

Coming from a poor, or a low income family usually means that their education options are limited to public schools whose resources are limited. Even if a student does well academically, often they will miss out on getting into a top college because the resources available to them that would help them get there are limited. On the flip side, students who come from wealthy families often have college funds that their parents have put aside for them. Because of this, they are able to attend the more expensive colleges. In the United States employers tend to value employees ...

Social norm is a necessary and relatively stable element of social practice, which serves as a tool of social regulation and control. The social norm is embodied in the the laws, traditions, customs, ie around what has become a habit, firmly established in life, the lifestyle of the majority of the population, supported by public opinion, plays the role of "natural regulator" of social and interpersonal relations. When deviant behavior should be understood as an act of human action that does not correspond to an established or actually prevailing in the society norms.In most cases deviates from social norms ...

Deviant behavior

Deviant behavior means that a person behaves himself contrary to modern social moral and legal norms. It entails the isolation, treatment or punishment of a person who violated the rules. The activity of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is the best example of deviant behavior because it always shocks people and provides pictures that are contrary to commonly accepted rules and behaviors. Some people even try to deal with this problem and it was attacked in last January, 12 people including eight staff were killed. This magazine has marked the one-year anniversary since terrorists attacked its Paris. It depicted God ...

The US economy faces challenges of inequality with a big wealth and pay difference between the rich and the poor. This disparity is also experienced between the blacks and the whites, with most whites belonging to the upper economic classes, while the blacks belong to the poor economic classes. Inequality in the Unites States is the highest when compared to other countries which are on the same economic level such as the UK (Desilver, 2014). There is a wide gap between the rich and the poor in the United States. These facts have a significant impact on the health, ...

Rape is defined as a crime involving one person having sexual intercourse with another person without prior consent, which has most recently applied to male victims, but usually involves physical force or deception to get the victim to submit or become subdued. There are seven theories which describe and define deviant behavior including social control, functionalism, anomie, social disorganization, strain theory, critical theory, and stigma theory. It seems most likely the social control theory can better explain why rapists participate in their form of deviant behavior. This paper will analyze various articles discussing theories related to rapist behavior. The ...

“Poor single mother on welfare tell me how you did it?” rings the famous lyric of the late Rapper-Activist Tupac Amaru Shakur. The son of a former Black Panther, this ode to his mother provides a glimpse into the conundrum of surviving in the wake of being poor and black on public assistance. What Shakur unknowingly reveals is the image of welfare in a more empathetic and realistic way that illuminates instead of ignoring the lived realities of its recipients. While Shakur’s lyric is compassionate in it’s depiction, conservative lawmakers are less considerate in their elucidation of ...

Throughout history, Americans have been documented to have abused various drugs starting from precolonial times America as it is well documented that Christopher Columbus, the explorer that discovered America, found other mind-affecting drugs which he brought back to Europe on his first voyage to modern-day (Elaine, n.d.). However, until the late 1880s, prohibitionists and abstentionists had an easy time in addressing the drug abuse among the population, since all the supply point was known and easily identified. Nonetheless, the country failed to have a comprehensive legal framework that was engineered to address the drug abuse problem due to rapid ...

The continuity of the anti-social behavior can be associated to the life-course theory which explains the continuity and change in behavior over time by making a connection between the past events and experiences to the present (Laub & Samson, 2005). Based on this theory, the extent of continuity in behavior between childhood, adolescence and adulthood should be analyzed to draw on the life-course framework in relation to social control and crime. In the beginning, a person’s criminal tendencies can be traced back to his or her childhood antisocial behavior, until reaching the adolescent delinquency, and the last stage is ...

In the recent times, the issue of crime and deviance has become one of the most talked about within the society. Deviance is made up of two categories: legally deviant behavior and illegally deviant behavior. For example, to understand legally deviant behavior, we can refer to this situation. Jonathan walked through his local library while listening to loud music from her mobile phone. This can be termed legally deviant since she is not breaking any law, but her acts are socially unacceptable. Moreover, illegally deviant takes place in a different approach. For instance, Kelvin hit a pregnant face on ...

Animal Rights: Topic Exploration and Analysis

Recent decades have seen numerous ad campaigns for the protection of animal rights within the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Some of the well-known issues that get television coverage would be animal abuse, criminal charges against animal abuse, torture within the fur industry, torture within the agricultural industry, the use of lab animals, and promotion of veganism. Animal rights activism is also seen as part of the environmental protection movement, since an issue would be the protection of wild animals from poaching and loss of habitat. The problem I will address in this study is the complexity ...

Deviant behavior does not adhere to the cultural norms and social accepted norms (Akers, 2011). Deviance comprises of behavior that violates expectations and standards of conduct of a group or society. Crime is one of the forms of deviance. In this paper, crime has been described as major type of deviance. Crime is considered as an act of deviance because in crime norm as well as law is broken. Crime as deviant behavior can be minor or it can be major such as it can be picking an individual’s nose or it can be commitment of murder. There ...

Introduction

This essay will investigate the definition of deviance in society from a sociological perspective. It will then define what it means to be socially deviant. This essay will go onto investigate what impacts deviance has on society. This essay will conclude that for some sociologists, deviance performs a necessary function in society that help establish and reaffirm our social norms, and can help us fix the problems within it The term deviance in sociology refers to an act that violates the standard social norms in a society (White et al, 2000). Succinctly it is a transgression of any kind ...

Deviant behavior is a behavior that is different from others. It occurs because of non conformity with the norms. Deviance is behavior that goes against dominant norms of the society. It is, however, socially constructed, it is not just only a matter of individual personal choice, and is an inherent part of the society. Crime, however, represents form of deviance in which societies impose some penalties. Deviance is, however, dependent on the culture, and is constructed socially. This can be analyzed from the fact that Emile Durkheim (1966, p 263) mentioned that crime, which is a form of deviance ...

Introduction

One of the major occupations of students studying crimes is to understand how criminal behaviors come about and why individuals are induced in engaging in deviant or criminal behaviors. Theories on crime and delinquency primarily explores this question to get a better understanding of individuals and society at large. Theorists drew from different fields of sciences such as sociology, psychology and biology, to find answers in uncovering individual motivations and structural inducement. One such theory that draws not only from sociology, but also from psychology, is the strain theory of Agnew. This paper provides a detailed discussion on the ...

One of the purposes of criminal law is to impress upon the public the necessity of acting in a manner that society or the state deems desirable. One way that the state achieves this purpose is to impose punishment on those found guilty of undesirable conduct (LaFave, 2000). Naturally, over the course of criminal law in human history, multiple theories of punishment have been developed. Two such theories are contained in the classical and positivist schools of criminological analysis. In order to understand the differences between these two schools, it is important to first understand some of their fundamental ...

- What are the central assumptions of biological theories of crime?

The central assumptions of biological theories of crime are founded on the belief that some people are born criminals. The theory of deviance postulated by Cesare Lombroso developed the idea that criminals have distinct physical characteristics. Other biological theories of crime also associate criminal behavior to hormones, neurotransmitters, autonomic and central nervous system functions.

- What have research studies in the field of genetics had to say about possible causes of crime?

Researches and criminology treatises are exploring the various aspects by which genetics can ...

Question1

For this particular scenario, I would use several layers of security because this compound is comprised of various components or buildings each having different significance or importance. Using different security for each layer would ensure that even if intruders are able to breach through one layer, they will be incapable of breaching the other layers using the same techniques that they might have used for the previous one (Bernard, 2007). I would, therefore, invite the best security experts to ensure the particular component of security that has been used one layer is not used on the other. The corporate ...

Criminal Law

Question No. 3

The biosocial perspective is an essential tool in order to develop both effective prevention and rehabilitation programs. Some of these biosocial factors include socio-economic deprivation, poor parental supervision, low intelligence, anti-social parents and siblings, harsh-child-rearing approach, delinquent friends and impaired decision-making (Cole and Gentz, 2013). Delinquency prevention efforts must not only be based on psychological but biosocial theories. Delinquency, especially on the part of the youth, should be directed at strengthening the child’s life at home and personal relationships. Family problems such as alcohol and drug-dependency issues, child abuse and sexual abuse can trigger deviant ...

Social process theory states that criminal behavior is as a result of the socialization process including the socio psychological interaction by the criminal with social organizations and institutions. The social process theory suggests that criminals opt to be involved in crime as a result of poor academic performance, pressure from colleagues, family issues, and legal entanglements in addition to other challenging situations. The theory mentions that anyone can be a criminal and is supported by the effect of family on young ones whereby there is a connection between behavioral problems and childhood experiences of hostility. Social structure theory states that the economically disadvantaged ...

In order to learn and train effectively, the United States Navy Academy has drafted a comprehensive organizational policy that is designed to ensure that all trainees become competent officers. The policy seeks to ensure that students have a safe, secure, friendly, and supportive learning environment that not only provides the necessary academy environment, but also provides an environment that creates an ambience which is student friendly. In order to arrive at this overriding objective, the academy has based its organizational policy on four key pillars. These include security, equality, responsibility, and accountability.

Before the policy was introduced in the academy, there ...

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a type of therapy that identifies and transforms negative emotional reactions, cognitive patterns, and behavioral patterns people manifest in certain situations. CBT is a goal-oriented therapy that focuses on several different factors that influence people and their psychological condition. When it comes to identifying antisocial behaviors that are considered psychological disorders, current research shows that both genetic risk factors and environmental risk factors are equally accountable for the development of psychological disorders (Moffit, 2005). CBT focuses mainly on removing limiting beliefs, learning new behavioral patterns, and building psychological resilience to external risk factors. Because it is a ...

Thesis: How self control theory can be used for determining the participation in the hacking culture and what are the effects of hacking. How self control theory can be used to overcome it.

Introduction

What is Low self control Low self control and the role of parents Self control theory and digital piracy The Gottfredson and Hirschi’s concept of crime itself What are the reasons of hacking or other crimes The proliferation of the automated tools Role of youth in hacking Computer hacking requires more planning and knowledge Online resources provide ...

In crude terms, deviance is any behavior that is against social norms, and is generally of adequate severity to attract disapproval from the society. Such behavior can be either criminal or non-criminal. From a sociological perspective, deviant criminal behavior is a separate area of study called criminology. Examples of criminal deviance would include sexual abuse, organized crime, terrorism, etc. Examples of non-criminal deviance may include mental disorder, homosexuality (though this being non-criminal depends on the group considered), etc. The aim of this paper is to consider the deviant behavior of young offenders and analyze the same from a sociological perspective.

Introduction

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It is possible to say that without complete considering of the cause of crime and deviance there is no discussion of crime and of the criminal justice. Criminologists seek for answers to the basic questions about what causes crime: Why do criminals commit crime? What are the roots that cause aggression and violence? Is it possible to say that people are genuinely good or they only motivated by self-interest? There are plenty of explanations for crime, like individual psychological differences, genetic abnormalities, some social or mental issues that might cause people to commit crime. In like manner, it is ...

Social; Stratification Aspects and their Application to Nursing Career

The three sociological concepts that influence social stratification are that of gender, racial or ethnic affiliation as well as an individual’s social class. Social stratification based on gender often occurs when people are treated differently based on the fact that they are either male or female. Gender is relevant to nursing as it influences how a nurse will relate to a patient, especially when they are of the opposite sex. It is crucial for nurses to establish boundaries when they are dealing with their clients. I will apply this concept by ensuring that I maintain a professional relationship with a person placed ...

Introduction

Recidivism occurs when an individual repeats a bad behavior they have suffered negative consequences before, even after undergoing counseling and training to leave the bad behavior. This behavior is experienced most in former prisoners who get rearrested for the same offence. One suggestion about the possible cause of behavior is failure of the corrective measures to prepare the offenders on how to handle difficulties when they re-enter society.

Restorative justice and recidivism

Restorative justice is the way of approaching justice, which emphasizes on the basic needs of the offenders (Tyler, 2006). It is an approach to justice with an aim of correcting harm caused ...

Sexual deviance comprises of a wide range of abnormal sexual expressions from cross dressing, fetishism, sexual masochism, incest, pedophilia, and rape. On the contrary, sexual deviant behavior can be defined in different contexts. According to sociology, sexual deviance varies from culture to the other depending different cultural beliefs and norms. Sexual deviant behaviors are attributed with discomfort, bizarreness, and inefficiency. Some sexual deviant habits include paraphilia, exhibitionism, fetishism, and masochist among others. Paraphilia individuals have behavior, an urge, or a sexual fantasy that is distressing and repetitive while exhibitionism entails sexual pleasure through exposure of the genitals (Goode, 2010). Fetishism, on ...

- Introduction and Thesis Statement Sociologists believe that both deviance and race are things that have been socially constructed in the society and have been embedded in people’s way of life (Innes, 2003, p.34). Deviance attributes to the actions of one defiling the social norms engrained in the society, which causes one to be marginalized in a given society. Race is also a social construct of the society based on one’s phenotype, which often results to the stereotypes of certain people in the society (Lemelle, 1995, p.56). This paper will discuss how race impacts deviance behavior and sparks a ...

Abstract

Social control theory obtained popularity across the 1960s which sociologists had different notions about crime. During the period, Travis Hirschi presented forth the innovative control theory rendering. This was a theory based on the existing social control concepts. The intent of this paper is to establish the links between school, family and other social aspects serve as ways of diminishing an individual’s propensity in deviant behavior.

Introduction

The social control theory maintains that crime happens when these bonds encounter weaknesses or lack sufficient establishment. The control theorists are for the fact that without the bonds, crime becomes an inevitable result ( ...

Introduction

Parenting is probably one of the most interesting, yet challenging experiences for most parents. While most parents are excited when welcoming their newborns in the world, they are also worried about the growth and development of their children. Their biggest challenge and worry is the upbringing of the children to ensure they become the best in the world. On that light, different parents utilize varying methods of parenting. The most common types of parenting the parents apply are authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved. Authoritarian parenting is one where parents expect their children to follow the rules they set without ...

The Meaning of Anomie

The term anomie is a concept developed in the field of sociology to apply to a condition where there is a breakdown of social norms and regulation in society. Anomie, or the absence of norms as expounded by the sociologist Emile Durkheim, prevails when individuals are left without moral guidance and society has little influence to compel individuals to follow rules and norms (Education Portal). There is then a disconnect between individuals and the collective society. Anomie theory is therefore seen as explaining deviance in society. The rise of crime can then be considered in this light. Anomie theory has influenced sociological thought ...

Application of Social Theories to Deviance

Introduction Deviance is usually defined as a behaviors by an individual that does not confine to the accepted cultural and social norms in the society. There are many types of deviant behavior in the society with each having its unique brand of characteristics. However, it is crucial to note that deviant behavior is interpreted differently across different cultural and social settings. Different social and cultural settings have different values and norms which they define as acceptable. A norm may be acceptable in one society while in another society, this norm may be widely abhorred and totally unacceptable in another ...

Introduction

Pragmatically, the deviant behaviour of white-collar criminals provides students of sociology a different exploration of how human nature works in clandestine operations in plain view. Society, at least superficially does not suspect a so-called white-collar individual of criminal behaviour in general, as stereotypes tend to lead people’s thoughts in the direction one way or another. While, the dishevelled, unkempt, anti-social “looking” individual exists as suspect of deviant behaviour by his/her mere appearance including labelled as a criminal in some regards, the white collar individual stands in society appearance wise as an upstanding citizen (Goode 2008).

Historically, the concept of white collar is not so new:

Edwin Sutherland created the concept of ...

Introduction

While many certainly agree that white collar crime presents serious legal issues the sociological implications, regarding deviant behavior, is not always obvious. No discussion inspires a proper balance for analysis without a relevant definition of our terms. According to a ‘Sociology’ glossary, published by the McGraw-Hill Higher Education (2014) group deviance is defined as “Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.” The same glossary defines the concept or theory ‘anomie’ as a Durkheim term for “the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective” (“Sociology Glossary,” 2014). In an effort ...

- Juvenile Delinquency - Theories of Delinquency Throughout history, communities and experts have varying opinions when it comes to explaining why there are juveniles or minors violating rules and laws. According to Martin (2005), early experts and communities tried to explain juvenile delinquency with two theories: demonism and naturalism. Naturalism pertains to the ‘practice of linking human affairs with the natural world, justifying human behavior with the influence of nature.’ For example, if the change due to lunar and solar cycles, human behavior is also affected by these forces. Ancient civilizations in the Mediterranean use this theory ...

ASSIGNMENT 2: APPLICATION PROJECT

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Description of a Past Experience on Committing a Deviant Act

Background: My Past Experience on Deviance Perhaps one of the most memorable experiences that involve the commission of a deviant act is my intentional use of a jar filled with eighty quarter-dollar coins to pay for items that cost close to, but not more than $20 in mall stores. During that time, I was very aware that there really is nothing wrong with paying for items using quarter-dollar coins inside a jar, given that there is no state or federal law that regulates the use and amount of certain currency denominations allowed for cash ...

Growing up in a single-parent family, I learned from an early age to collaborate with my mother and my brother in everything we did. Many times, while organizing the household’s choruses, the activities within our family were very well divided. On a higher level, we all knew our functions: while I and my brother were responsible with learning, our mother was the provider of our household. My mother was not quite the prototype of a traditional mother who is dependent on the domestic sphere, taking care of her housewife’s activities. Although she made sure to also organize and coordinate the ...

Question one

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, ...

Violent Crimes

Violent Crimes 1.) The three (3) perspectives on human nature are conformity perspective, non-conformity perspective, and learning perspective. The conformity perspective states that humans are basically good (Bartol & Bartol, 2014). On the other hand, the non-conformity perspective, the humans to be unruly by nature, and that they have to be controlled by the community. The deviant behavior of humans can cause them to commit crimes indiscriminately. The learning perspective states that humans are neutral and that they have to be controlled by society. These three perspectives relate to violent crime and criminal behavior in that an offender develops ...

Internet Deviance

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Introduction

Online deviant behavior or Internet deviance can be described as a number of activities that are either illegal, amoral, or both. It is not an untold secret in the contemporary times that the accessibility to information has been transformed by the Internet. This is because it has become a very easy task for people to search others who possess similar beliefs and then emphasize widely unacceptable behaviors. Internet has also empowered people with similar pathological level. Such individuals are able to organize and communicate with each other on virtual communities. Although it is still not clear whether such ...

How does the process of social interaction contribute to criminal behavior?

Social interaction is manner in which an individual associates with other people within their environment. In most cases, social interaction has led to the development of social groups that have certain rules and regulations designed for persons within the group to observe. Social norms are opinions constructed by a majority in the society. Therefore, deviant behavior only results from breaking rules comstructed by those in authority. This implies that criminal behavior can be an outcome of social interaction following because a given social group may be engaging in activities that are otherwise considered deviant by the society at large, but is ...

Introduction

Past research results have indicated diverging views on the same issue. While some studies have found that school drop has no effect on crime and deviant behaviors, others have found out that school dropout has a close relationship with deviant behavior as well criminal activities. Other studies have indicated that students who drop out of school tend to shy away from crime and deviant behavior. Drapela (49) attributes these divergent views and findings to the fact that researchers do not have a common standard upon which they can divide their school drop outs into categories. Different school dropouts’ categorization criteria applied ...

In every society existing in the world, one of the major inevitable issues affecting their well being is a crime, not only as per the law, but also according to the social (documented and undocumented) norms of that particular society. Some of these modes of behavior leading to crime are considered deviant. The identification of deviant behaviors has had many methods and ways, including various theories from professionals especially sociologists. The labeling theory, the interaction theory, the conflict theory, the control theory, the neutralization theory and biological theories are some of the examples of theories that attempt to describe deviant ...

Discussion 1

Howard Becker makes a claim that social groups normally create deviance by making specific rules whose infraction constitute deviance. When these rules are applied to particular people who are not part of the group, there are bound be infractions and as such, the people will be labeled as deviants. Howard’s point of view seems to suggest that deviance is not a quality of the act commited by an individual but is rather a consequence or a result of application of sanctions and rules to an offender. Personally, I agree with Becker’s assertion. It is very common in the society to ...

Introduction

"The Great Gatsby" is an Australian-American film released in 2013 based on the bestselling novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald written in 1925. Directed by Baz Luhmann, "The Great Gatsby" provides the source of this academic discourse. The analysis of the sociological issue of deviance portrayed in the 2013 movie "The Great Gatsby" connects to the immoral actions of the era about ill-gained riches, social snobbery, racism, sexism, and excess in a time of national economic depression, immorality and marital infidelity, and murder.

Ill-gained Riches

The underpinning deviant behavior of the key player in this movie is Jay Gatsby who gains his wealth ...

Abstract

Social issues have been known to be present in the society for ling. They are the ones which affect the normal functioning of the societies. Social issues have laws and guides that guide them. Formal social issues will lead to criminal activities if they are not followed while the informal social issues will just be a stability effect. Social issues have been seen to control the society and a way in which social order is undertaken. This paper will focus social deviance and how it affects the society.

Introduction

The social issue that I am interested in this paper is social deviance. ...

Question One

The close nexus between crime and race has been the subject of much scholarly inquiry and debate for decades. A number of theories have been used to explain the linkages. The nuances in all these theories is minimal as they all point out that race is a significant factor in the study of crime and criminal behavior. Such a study is particularly interesting in a cosmopolitan society because race as demography would be able to provide a number of variances that can be analyzed. For example, the prevalence of crime among the African American populace has significantly influenced the school of thought of ...

Mark Warr carries out his research using a paper by Sampson and Laub (1993) as a starting point. Sampson and Laub have proposed that life-course transitions such as marriage, employment, and entry into the military may have significant effect on criminal behavior. Sampson and Laub had also sought to examine criminal behavior over a subject's entire life and not just the teenage years. The carried out this research on data from the 1950s which has known for its comprehensiveness. They had found that marriage and job stability had significant effect on criminal behavior in adulthood. Warr argues that their analysis is not ...

In sociology, crime and deviance are studied when cultural norms, changes it goes through over time and the consequences that occur when they are broken are studied. With help of norms, individuals learn to exert self control from the activities that might destroy the peace of a society. Social norms differ in different parts of the world. It means that if for one society a certain social act is abhorred it might be considered normal in another society. Sociologists study the reasons behind these differences and how it effects the population living in those societies. Deviance is the name given ...

Criminal Law

Mara Salvatrucha Gang or the MS-13 Gang Based on the report of the Committee on Internal Relations of the House of Congress (2005), one of the famous notorious gangs known all over the world is Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang. MS-13 is a violent gang that is composed of Central America Immigrants who originated in Los Angeles, California and has spread across America. The gang members come from various parts of the world including Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. The National Drug Intelligence Center estimates that there are 8,000 to 10,000 members of MS-13. Although such group is ...

Criminal Law

The program for youth offenders involved in gang-related problems has been designed to solve that policy on juvenile crime, drug uses and the role of community corrections to rehabilitate their deviant behavior. The juvenile program is intended to give the youth offenders the opportunity to correct past mistakes. Del Carmen and Trulson (2005) argued that imprisonment of youth offenders will result to a traumatic experience since it will separate them from their families. This action on the part of the community is related to the rehabilitation theory which will benefit the juvenile delinquents to have a better future. For non-violent youth ...

Sociologists refer to deviance as any behavior, characteristic or a belief that violate, or deviate, or depart from, a basic norm and is likely to generate negative reactions or perceptions by the persons who observes or hears about the norm violation (Bartos and paul, p17). In addition, they further outline the ABCs of deviance as: Attitudes, Conditions and behaviors. Adler and Adler (2009) clearly explain why these ABCs are considered to be the major types of deviance. He explains Attitudes as any unpopular, unconventional beliefs that may or may not depict themselves in overt actions. In regard to behavior, he explains ...

The definition of serial killers is highly debatable as some find the need to distinguish them from mass murderers. However, there are distinguishable features that allow professionals to profile serial killers to be calculating, detail oriented and precise killers (Waller, 2010) making them more distinct as compared to other killers and murderers. They are not impulsive killers but rather they plan their next move and carefully select their victims. Profiling series killers led the police authorities to categorize them into four types as follows: mission oriented type, hedonistic type, visionary type, and power/control type. In an attempt to understand ...

Module #4

Module #4 The cause of criminal behavior can be attributed under two theories namely, the Positivist and Classical. Under the Positivist theory, it can be referred to the deviant behavior of every human being is based on the one’s genetic composition. The intrinsic evil qualities of every individual will force him or her to give in to the criminal behavior. The logical explanation for this theory is that the criminal mind has a close connection to the biosocial perspective which includes the physiological and biological traits acquired by birth. On the other hand, the theory under the Positive ...