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The resulting publicity has the potential to increase the deviant behavior by glamorizing it, or by making it seem common or acceptable. In the next stage, public concern typically forces the police and the law enforcement system to focus more resources on dealing with the specific deviancy than it warrants.
Juvenile delinquency, or offending, is often separated into three categories: delinquency, crimes committed by minors, which are dealt with by the juvenile courts and justice system; criminal behavior, crimes dealt with by the criminal justice system; status offenses, offenses that are only classified as such because only a minor can commit ...
Researchers like Hunter and Becker in their analysis of the causes and treatment implications of the role of deviant sexual arousal in juvenile sex offenders emphasize its prevalence and suggest numerous theories, some including the idea that deviant interests develop early in life and strengthen through committing sexual acts with the deviant ...
Merton theorized that society places substantial emphasis on the importance of achieving success. However, this goal is not attainable for people of all social classes.Due to the absence of resources for people of lower social classes to achieve a great level of success, Merton theorized that people are forced to commit deviant acts.
Techniques of neutralization are a theoretical series of methods by which those who commit illegitimate acts temporarily neutralize certain values within themselves which would normally prohibit them from carrying out such acts, such as morality, obligation to abide by the law, and so on. In simpler terms, it is a psychological method for ...
Two types of antisocial behavior were measured: covert, or behavior that focuses on deceit and theft, and overt, or behavior that involves direct confrontation and the threat of physical harm. This experiment documents subjects during three main periods of their life: childhood , 6–11 years of age, adolescence, 12–17 years of age, and ...
Editor's note: Contents of this story may be disturbing to some readers. A 36-year-old Arizona man has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for illegally owning guns and for filming ...
By contrast, strong bonds make deviance costly. This theory asks why people refrain from deviant or criminal behavior, instead of why people commit deviant or criminal behavior, according to Travis Hirschi. The control theory developed when norms emerge to deter deviant behavior. Without this "control", deviant behavior would happen more often.