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 [dḗvē-ənt]
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Deviance in a sociological context describes actions or behaviours that violate cultural norms including formally-enacted rules (e.g., crime) as well as...
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Deviancy amplification spiral (also simply called deviance amplification) is a media hype phenomenon defined by media critics as an increasing cycle of...
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Defining Deviancy Down in Immigration ; Has the White House contracted out immigration policy to the immigration lawyers? We are legitimizing illegal immigration — defining deviancy down, if you will — by effectively incorporating illegal immigration into our policy structure.
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Inflected Form(s): plural de·vi·an·cies. Date: 1947. : deviance. Bing Learn more about "deviancy". Learn more about "deviancy" and related topics at...
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Jan 2, 2003 All behaviours whether considered deviant or not are based on a social construction of what is deviant or conforming...
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"Defining deviancy down," the catchy alliteration coined by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D., N.Y.) is the 1990s equivalent of "permissiveness" in political rhetoric about crime and criminal justice.
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"Defining Deviancy Down tone that suggests that, with deviancy, as with most social goods, there is deviancy so as to exempt much conduct previously stigmatized, and also...
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Encyclopedia: Deviant behavior
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Extensive amount of information on sexual abuse and sexual deviancy. Cognitive Behavioral Theory suggests that irrational beliefs and cognitive distortions help to initiate sexual deviancy. Soon after the offender becomes conditioned to negative sexual stimuli, with "orgasm" being the reinforcer.
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