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Chapter Summaries on Police Deviance

thought, ultimately rendering "peace officers" the instigators of terrible crimes against humanity. The concept of a rational soc...

Prostitution Deviance and Theories of Sociology

exchange for money and in the absence of an existing social relationship is deviant in comparison with the normative culture. But...

Forces of Deviance by Kappeler, Sluder, and Alpert Chapter Summaries

(authoritarian and conservative) that attract them to police work and that their personalities shape the work they do. The other ...

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...

American History X and Deviance

In five pages the deviance of skinheads as they are cinematically depicted is examined. Five sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Deviance and a Rhetorical Argument

In five pages opinionated, objective, and subjective rhetorical strategies are examined in this consideration of deviance. One so...

The Balance Between Society and the Individual in Urban Society

This 5 page paper argues that the urban environment is in reality a delicate balance between society and the individual. The write...

Changing Definition and Perceptions of Sexual Deviance

In eleven pages this paper discusses how sexual deviance definitions and perceptions change with the times. Five sources are cite...

Deviance and Sociological Theory

upon individuals within a group" (Wong, 2005). This theory lays the blame for delinquent behavior on the community, which was una...

'The Eye of the Beholder' and Crime

is any action that is against the laws of the land, and as such needs to be a social construct as it is the laws that are develope...

Why Deviance is Relative

kitchen, I realized that he had cases of beer stacked to the ceiling. I asked Ricky why there was so much beer in the kitchen, and...

Exhibiting Social Deviance

glared and showed signs of impatience but said nothing. Perhaps a more direct approach would draw more direct response. Th...

Administrator Challenges: Law Enforcement Ethics

who are supposed to uphold this duty are the ones perpetuating the problem, the fine line that already exists between criminality ...

Sexually Deviantl Behavior

explains that the concept of sexuality has resulted from the discourse (2001). That is, sexuality would not have even been a topic...

Jeffrey Dahmer and Applications of Reckless' Containment Theory of Delinquency and Gottredson and Hirschi's Self Control Theory

as a whole, criminals have not. Gottredson and Hirschi attribute this failure to inadequate or improper child-rearing which resul...

Deviance Theory of Merton

In five pages this paper considers college campus's sociocultural norms in an application of Merton's deviance theory. One source...

College Campuses and Merton's Deviance Theory

desire for material security, success, and comfort on one hand, and limited opportunities to achieve these things on the other han...

Criminal Justice and Various Educational Strategies

appropriate way students are able to obtain a full and eclectic spectrum of what is being taught. Of course, not every subject ne...

Deviant Behavior Such as Suicide

Many people have become very concerned with such instances of suicide because of political, social and/or religious reasons, and t...

Child Molestation and Deviance

is it readily connected to the original incident. Similarly, perhaps the child grows up and engages in drug and/or alcohol abuse ...

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....

Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal Lector's Deviance

Hannibal Lecter is not simply a psychopath, but also a psychiatrist with the ability to look into the minds of others and predict ...

Violence and Deviance

that when ones family are starving, working for the money is what becomes paramount. One cannot feed ones family on soviet rhetori...

Deviance in Conflict Theory and Consensus

the process of indicating which individuals abide by the prescribed societal rules and which ones do not. Generally, a community ...

A Deviance Theories' Study

In a paper containing ten pages constructivist and etiologic deviance theories are discussed along with differences, similarities,...

Deviance from a Victorian View Perspective

see them in the context of the society in which they originated. The Victorian view of criminality The commonly expressed public ...

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...

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...