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Defining Deviance in a Homelessness Context

There is no question that homelessness represents the most "painful form of poverty" (Chitayat PG), with the deviance-defining pro...

Deviance and Beyond the Conventional Norm

In ten pages commitment and labeling theories are applied to a discussion of deviance and its various concepts and what constitute...

A Youth Population Shoplifting Study

In twenty pages an overview of shoplifting among youth includes the development of child deviance and the peer pressure influence....

Society According to Emile Durkheim

of solidarity in terms of society in general. But, according to Durkheims theorizing, it is not necessarily a beneficial transitio...

Classical Theory and the Demonic Perspective

In five pages this paper takes a theoretical examination of criminal deviance. Three sources are listed in the bibliography....

Robert Beck's A Sociological and Psychological Look at Pimp The Story of My Life

In nine pages Beck's story is examined within the context of psychological and sociological perspectives with social deviance role...

Concept of Deviance

In ten pages the concept of deviance is examined from various theoretical vantage points and includes labeling and anomie theory a...

Social Change and the Catalyst of Deviance

In eight pages deviance is examined in terms of functions and how norms violations may perversely actually contribute to the order...

Overview of Deviance

In eight pages the deviance concept is examined in an overview that discusses various factors such as the labeling theory with an ...

Overview of Important Sociological Theories

In eight pages sociological theories by Becker, Marx, and Weber are discussed in terms of how they relate to issues including soci...

Films of Pedro Almodovar and Luis Bunuel

In three pages three essays compare these great filmmakers in a consideration of such themes as social deviance the 'Stockholm Syn...

Deviance in 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...

Labeling and Deviant Behavior

In four pages this research paper relates labeling to deviant conduct and also applies the same concept to sexual deviance, drugs,...

Criminology and Deviance Theories

In ten pages this fictitious case study featuring person arrested for pot possession intending to sell explores various deviance t...

Criminal Behavior Explained

In fifteen pages this paper argues that society alone does not adequately explain crime but that this type of human deviance is be...

Deviance Theories and Organized Crime

In six pages this paper applies criminology and deviance theories to Gambino 'family' organized crime group. Six sources are cite...

Prostitution and Theories of Systematic Deviance

In four pages this paper examines prostitution through an application of systematic deviance sociological theories. Two sources a...

Security Management and Social Theory

has decreased 50 percent overall. The psychology has changed and it is working. Enforcement forces in those cities are no longer t...

Theories of Cultural Deviance

Juvenile delinquency is considered in twelve pages within the context of the Theory of Differential Association by Sutherland and ...

Social Theory and Deviance

In six pages deviance is considered through various sociological theories from Sutherland until Becker along with Brown's conformi...

A School Violence Sociological Perspective

In this paper consisting of eight pages the reasons for school violence are explored sociologically and contends that child devian...

Anthropological Views on Deviance

In four pages this paper discusses the text edited by Freilich, Raybeck, and Savishinsky entitled Deviance Anthropological Persp...

Gangs Explained Through Deviance Sociological Theory

This paper examines in five pages how gangs are explained through an application of the deviance sociological theory that includes...

Deviance Social Theories

In six pages a 1998 article that examines theories of social strain and anomie as each relates to crime is analyzed with suggest...

Crimina. Deviance

"will they stop?" If one considers that there is a mental screw loose somewhere, then the automatic answer to "will they stop," u...

Sicilian Mafia, Deviance, and the Sociology of Crime

In five pages this paper examines the Sicilian Mafia in a contrast and comparison of how the connection between agency and structu...

Literary Criticism of Deviance and Desires by P.D. James

writers inherent ability to pursue even the complex of criminal concepts. Not unlike her myriad other works, the author appeals t...

Interpersonal Conflict and Resolution Case Study of Mental Wellness and Deviance

is interesting to note is the extreme to which Johns antisocial behaviors and his substance abuse have determined his job path and...

Deviance Across Cultures: Girl Gangs Around the World

feud between rival families of the Camorra crime syndicate" exploded in a small town outside Naples (Israely, 2002, p. 32). The le...

Deviance and Homosexuality

also probably fair to say that most people drink, but not to excess; they enjoy a drink with dinner or a beer on a hot day. That m...