Dissertations / Theses: 'Deviants'

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Blanco, Fernando A. "Deviants, Dissidents, Perverts: Chile Post Pinochet." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1244262894.

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Wong, Ying-ching Hilda, and 黃映貞. "Youth subculture in Hong Kong: case studies of young deviants." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31976116.

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Fiorini, John Carl. "Deviants of Great Potential: Images of the Leopold-Loeb Case." W&M ScholarWorks, 2013. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623611.

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Deviants of Great Potential analyzes the 1924 Leopold-Loeb case as a cultural narrative with important effects on the marginalization of same-sex sexuality in men throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. After Chicago teenagers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were arrested for the United States' first nationally recognized "thrill killing," the apparently motiveless murder of fourteen-year-old Robert Franks, the Leopold-Loeb case became an instant cause celebre. The popular fixation on the case continued in the decades after 1924, as journalists and behavioral scientists treated it as a precedent for understanding a certain type of crime and criminal. Meanwhile---especially after World War II---a slew of novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers offered their own interpretations.;Through the intertwining representations of the case in fiction and nonfiction, the Leopold-Loeb case became a cautionary tale about the dangers of "abnormal" sexuality in men. Narratives of the case portrayed Leopold and Loeb's sexual relationship as the sine qua non of Robert Franks's murder, and the case thereby came to represent same-sex sexuality as a threat to moral order and public safety, and to serve as a counterexample of the traits "normal" men should or should not exhibit.

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Rea, Allison Louise. "Sinners, deviants, and criminals, social control in Glasgow and Aberdeen, 1593-1626." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0026/MQ40435.pdf.

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Conyers, Addrain. "Manifold deviants : labeling and identity management among persons possessing multiple spoiled identities/." Available to subscribers only, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1408594251&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2007.
"Department of Sociology." Keywords: Deviants, Labeling, Identity management, Spoiled identities, Multiple identities, Deaf, Queer, Ex-offenders Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-166). Also available online.

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Baxter, Ruth Mary. "Learning from positive deviants to improve the quality and safety of healthcare." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16776/.

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Every day around the globe, patients are harmed within healthcare organisations. Attempts to improve the quality and safety of healthcare traditionally focus on past errors and harm, yet there is little evidence of widespread improvement. In contrast, the positive deviance approach seeks to identify and learn from those who demonstrate exceptional performance despite facing the same constraints as others. Bradley et al. (2009) have proposed a four stage process to apply positive deviance within healthcare organisations: 1) positive deviants are identified using routinely collected data; 2) hypotheses are generated about how they succeed; 3) these are tested within representative samples; and 4)the successful strategies are disseminated. Despite this, limited guidance exists to support applications. This thesis sought to test a robust and pragmatic method for applying the positive deviance approach within multidisciplinary healthcare teams. Study 1 systematically reviewed the methods used to apply positive deviance within healthcare. Previous applications identified positively deviant organisations or individuals and focused on narrow outcomes or processes of care. Applications lacked quality and used extensive resources. Study 2 analysed NHS Safety Thermometer data to identify five positively deviant and five matched comparison elderly medical wards. In the main, staff and patient perceptions of safety on these wards supported their identification. During study 3, multidisciplinary staff focus groups were conducted to explore how these wards delivered exceptionally safe care. In total, 14 behaviours and cultures were hypothesised to facilitate positive deviance at ward level. Study 4 assessed the feasibility of applying positive deviance within a general practice setting. Findings highlighted challenges of selecting data to identify positive deviants, recruiting general practices to participate, and generating hypotheses about success strategies that were unique to positive deviants yet common among them. In combination, these studies generated guidance to support rigorous applications of the positive deviance approach within healthcare organisations. The evidence suggested that, in the future, it may be possible to improve the quality and safety of care by focusing on those that demonstrate exceptional rather than poor outcomes of care.

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Hartley, E. "The institutional treatment of juvenile delinquency : aspects of the English reformatory and industrial school movement in the nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/35643.

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This thesis studies the significance of the reformatory as a nineteenth century institution whose purpose was to reduce and eventually eliminate Juvenile crime. It examines in particular the reformatory school and the long-term industrial school (together with its products the truant and day industrial school). It is argued that the growth and development of these schools was governed by the dynamic interaction of social pressures and institutional responses, but the Home Office's position between these two forces was often a formative influence in its own right. Some of the traditional interpretations of reformatory history are reviewed critically, particularly the view that reformatory and industrial schools were the creations of wide-ranging fears about juvenile criminality, and that Home Office Schools were no longer seen as socially relevant by the end of the nineteenth century. There are two fundamental themes. The first is concerned with the ideological underpinning of the industrial and reformatory school movement, both at its inception and during its development in the second half of the century. The theory and practice of the institutions forms the second theme, and a detailed study of daily regimes is integral to an attempt to assess how legal and social changes were interpreted and acted upon in the schools. The final part of the thesis suggests that toward the end of the nineteenth century Home Office Schools adapted in a variety of ways to the changing demands made upon them, and continued to function as significant agents in society's attempts to remodel the characters of its non-conforming children.

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Hechler, Stefanie [Verfasser], Thomas [Gutachter] Kessler, Franz J. [Gutachter] Neyer, and Raoul [Gutachter] Bell. "Cooperation in social groups : reactions to (moral) deviants / Stefanie Hechler ; Gutachter: Thomas Kessler, Franz J. Neyer, Raoul Bell." Jena : Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1177602091/34.

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吳玉儀 and Yuk-yee Jessie Ng. "The influence of social labelings on the self-esteem of delinquent girls: a reflection on social work dilemmaswith social deviants." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1985. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31247520.

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Ng, Yuk-yee Jessie. "The influence of social labelings on the self-esteem of delinquent girls : a reflection on social work dilemmas with social deviants /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1985. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12322453.

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Meakin, Sebastian, and Dennis Carlsson. "När gymkultur blir problematisk : En kvalitativ studie om ohälsosamt träningsbeteende." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-31672.

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Gyms are populated by more and more people and there is an increased interest in wellness and health. However, there is a downside to the culture that people choose to step into. Exercise can go too far and take unhealthy directions. The purpose of this study is to examine how norms are created in the gym culture and how unhealthy behaviour is reproduced inside the walls of the gym. We have also done research about how a local gym identifies and handles deviant behaviour such as the use of doping and eating disorders. Methods used are qualitative interviews and participating observations. Our theoretical framework has consisted of social constructivist theories of Peter Berger and Howard S. Becker such as the socially constructed reality and deviant careers. Our results have shown that it’s difficult to draw a line between what is healthy and unhealthy. The gym atmosphere and it`s message, the gym visitors and how they relate to values, interact and confirm each other mutually. This creates the gym norm. The gym handles deviant behaviour by conversations with its visitors and by having close ties to medical care. Knowledge is the key to a healthy approach towards training and also to the identification of deviant behaviour.

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Rothwell, Virginia Leigh. "The Relationship between Attitudes toward Deviance and Deviant Behavior: The Influence of Science, Individualism, Social Bonds and Deviant Peers." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28988.

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Various sociological theories of deviance have demonstrated the importance of an individualâ s attitudes toward deviance in determining whether or not that individual will engage in deviant behavior. This research contributes to the theoretical and empirical literature on deviant behavior by examining the strength of two cultural factors, the scientific worldview and individualism, in predicting an individualâ s attitudes toward deviance when tested alongside the tenets of other predominate individual level theories of deviance, namely Hirschiâ s (1969) social control theory and Sutherlandâ s (1939) differential association theory. The sample for this analysis is 202 students from a large research university in Southwest Virginia. The findings of this research lend support to Sutherlandâ s (1939) differential association theory and to the scientific worldview as significant predictors of tolerant attitudes toward deviance. Several of the bonds of Hirschiâ s (1969) social control theory were also supported in this research; however, some failed to predict deviant behavior, leading to the conclusion that future research should focus on clearly elucidating the conceptualization of the social bonds forwarded in the original theory. Finally, the cultural ideology of individualism was not a significant predictor of tolerant attitudes toward deviance in this study. Future empirical studies should work to more clearly operationalize this variable as Hawdon (2005) described it and investigate the variables significance as a predictor of tolerant attitudes toward deviance.
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Lee, Charern. "Deviant Peers, Opportunity, and Cyberbullying: A Theoretical Examination of a New Deviance." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1121.

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Scholars of cybercrime have used social learning theory (SLT) and routine activities theory (RAT) to explain the variation in offending and victimization; however, to date, only RAT has been used to explain the specific behavior of cyberbullying. Therefore, this study combines SLT and RAT concepts to explain the cyberbullying phenomenon. Today's adolescents are exposed early to cyberspace and this has given them more opportunities to bully their peers, especially in an environment that is difficult to monitor by adults. The results from this study of a sample of Southeastern middle and high school students suggest that the opportunity component of RAT explains both cyberbullying victimization and offending, and the differential association component of SLT increases youths' likelihood of offending. Additionally, the findings suggest a correlation between victimization and offending. The results also show that the differential association-opportunity interaction increases the likelihood of offending, but the relationship was not statistically significant.

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Roberts, Joanne. "Family Rituals and Deviant Behavior." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5516/.

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Many researchers have sought to identify the antecedents of deviant behavior. The purpose of this study was to explore whether family rituals might contribute to social control, and thereby reduce deviant behavior. Walter Reckless' containment theory provided the theoretical framework for the study. This theory suggests that both inner and outer containment variables control social behavior. It was proposed that meaningful family rituals would contribute to the development of inner and outer containment, and therefore, reduce the number of deviant behaviors committed by the respondents. In this study, the inner containment variable was self-esteem, and the outer containment variables were participation in conforming activities with family members both inside and outside the home, and participation in extracurricular activities. Two hundred and seven incarcerated respondents and 217 college students responded to three survey instruments, the Family Rituals Questionnaire, the Culture Free Self-Esteem Inventory, and a Family Information Inventory. Findings indicated that the college students reported experiencing more meaningful family rituals than the incarcerated respondents. Results indicate that the two groups differed significantly on all of the major variables. However, meaningful family rituals had little association with self-esteem, and self-esteem had no relationship with deviant behavior. Meaningful family rituals did account for some variation in participation in conforming activities with family members inside and outside the home and for participation in extracurricular activities. However, the variables that were most significant for explaining deviant behavior were the risk factors of age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, neighborhood crime, and parents's deviance. Future research should explore the role of risk factors in explaining deviant behavior and study the role of meaningful family rituals and the role they might play in creating a qualitative difference in family life.

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Richards, Courtney. "Deviant." Connect to this title online, 2009. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1263408631/.

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DE, ANGELI ETTORE. "Dov'è la giustizia? Adolescenti ed emozioni tra procedure di giustizia in famiglia e devianza." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/1209.

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Il lavoro di ricerca si focalizza sui modelli di giustizia e sulla devianza in adolescenza. Obiettivo è quello di mettere a fuoco alcuni elementi cruciali che intervengono come fattori protettivi e fattori di rischio nel comportamento adolescenziale. Nello specifico è indagato il ruolo svolto da variabili familiari, dalla giustizia procedurale, dalle emozioni e dal bisogno di riparazione. I contributi empirici utilizzano metodologie diverse: partendo da un lavoro esplorativo e passando attraverso la validazione di uno strumento di misurazione della giustizia procedurale il lavoro giunge alle analisi confermative su un modello teorico. Il primo studio qualitativo indaga le narrazioni e i significati attribuiti, da parte di adolescenti autori di reato, a tematiche familiari, emotive e di giustizia. Il secondo offre un contributo alla validazione italiana della Family Procedural Justice Scale (Fondacaro, Jackson, & Luescher, 2002), uno strumento self-report volto a misurare la giustizia procedurale in famiglia. Il terzo si occupa di proseguire nella direzione generata dagli studi precedenti e, attraverso analisi confermative sul modello teorico proposto, evidenzia il ruolo protettivo della percezione di giustizia procedurale in famiglia, della legittimità parentale, del bisogno di riparazione e delle emozioni di vergogna reintegrativa e colpa, mentre individua come fattore di rischio l’associazione a pari devianti.
The research focuses on the models of justice and delinquency in adolescence. The primary goal is to focus on crucial elements that act as protective and risk factors in adolescent behavior. Specifically, the role played by family variables, procedural justice, emotions and reparation is investigated. The empirical contributions use different methodologies: starting from an exploratory work and going through the validation of a procedural justice measuring instrument, the research comes to confirmatory analysis on a theoretical model. The first qualitative study explores the narratives and meanings attributed by adolescents offenders to family, emotional and justice issues. The second is a contribution to the Italian validation of the Family Procedural Justice Scale (Fondacaro, Jackson, & Luescher, 2002), a self-report instrument designed to measure procedural justice in the family. The third study continues in the direction generated by previous studies and, through confirmatory analysis on the proposed theoretical model, highlights the protective role of family procedural justice, parents legitimacy, need for reparation, reintegrative shame and guilt, whereas the association to deviant peers is identified as a risk factor.

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Rohlman, James E. "Attribution to Deviant and Nondeviant Social Roles." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2178/.

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A questionnaire was used to study causal attribution to social roles as influenced by perceived deviance of the role, instructions to identify with the role, and participant gender. The perceived deviance or nondeviance of the roles was determined by a pilot study. The roles were varied randomly through 12 hypothetical events, and identification or nonidentification instructions randomly assigned. The participants were 194 male and female university students. Participants gave the cause of each event and rated the cause on five dimensions: internality, externality, stability, globality, and controllability. Causal attribution to deviant social roles was found to result in a significantly higher across-scales score and to be more internal, less external, and more global than attribution to nondeviant roles. Participant gender showed an interaction with deviance overall and on the dimensions of stability and globality due to significantly higher ratings by women participants than those by men. Identification instructions did not produce a significant effect.

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Boyle, Joseph Edward. "Becoming Vegetarian: An Analysis of the Vegetarian Career Using an Integrated Model of Deviance." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27476.

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This dissertation attempts to explore the nature of a particular food consumption pattern using a number of different deviance theories in order to outline the career path of vegetarianism. Using semi-structured interviews with 45 practicing vegetarians from two regions of the United States, the career path of the vegetarians was developed around David Matzaâ s (1969) theory of becoming deviant. Within each stage of Matzaâ s classic work, more specific theories were applied to explain the friction between vegetarianism and the more socially-accepted practice of meat eating within the United States. The framework of the stages includes the affinity for, affiliation with, and signification of vegetarian ideology and practice. Each stage within the theory is also a stage in the development of the vegetarian identity. The more specific theories utilized to explain phenomena within each particular stage attempt to show a progression from initially being interested in the ideals and practice of vegetarianism to becoming and verbalizing as a mature, practicing vegetarian. Finally, the vegetarians interviewed were asked to give the prognosis for the future of vegetarianism.
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Nieuwenboer, Niki A. den. "Seeing the shadow of the self : studies on workplace deviance = Het zien van de schaduw van het zelf : studies naar deviant gedrag in organisaties /." Rotterdam, 2008. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9789058921826.

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Li, Li. "Deviant fertility in China." Diss., This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-165616/.

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CAMPANA, DANIELA. "CONDANNATI A DELINQUERE? UNA RICERCA SU CARCERE E RECIDIVA." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/291.

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Questo lavoro si pone come obiettivo la verifica del legame esistente tra esperienza di carcerazione e rischio di recidiva. Il punto di partenza è costituito dall'esame delle teorie della pena a partire dal contributo della sociologia. L'approdo teorico di questa analisi è la rilevazione delle ambivalenze e dei nodi irrisolti dell'agire punitivo, che trovano piena esplicazione nella forma di penalità per eccellenza dell'epoca moderna: il carcere. Di quest'ultimo vengono esaminati gli esiti criminogeni e le finalità che contrastano con gli obiettivi risocializzanti dell'agire punitivo. Da questa riflessione scaturisce la convinzione, comune a molti sociologi, che esista un legame tra carcere e recidiva. La ricerca empirica intende verificare l'esistenza di questo legame, attraverso la ricostruzione del punto di vista del soggetto deviante. Mediante la realizzazione di interviste in profondità a un gruppo di 18 tra detenuti (11) ed ex detenuti (7) si è cercato di comprendere se e in che modo l'esperienza detentiva incoraggi l'interiorizzazione di un sé deviante e la rappresentazione di un futuro irrimediabilmente compromesso in chiave criminale. Le nostre conclusioni possono essere riassunte in due punti principali: (1) vi è uno stretto legame tra carcerazione e recidiva (2) non vi sono differenze significative tra carcerati ed ex carcerati per quanto riguarda il modo in cui descrivono e interpretano le loro esperienze e il legame di queste con la recidiva.
This research aims to examine the association between incarceration and recidivism. The starting point is an exam of the main penal theories in a sociological perspective, which resulted in discovering and highlighting the ambivalence of the main penal practice of our time, imprisonment. We then examine the criminogenic outcome of imprisonment, which is a clear denial of its resocialization purposes. From this analysis we claim the existence of a direct association between imprisonment in a correctional institution and recidivism. The empirical research aims to verify this association, from the point of view of a representative sample of inmates and former inmates. To do this, we carried out 18 interviews with 11 inmates and 7 former inmates. Our goal was understanding whether and how imprisonment promotes the creation of a deviant personality and the representation of a future still stuck in crime. Our conclusions may be summarized in two main points: (1) there is a strong association between incarceration and recidivism and (2) there aren't noticeable differences between inmates and former inmates in terms of how they describe and read their experiences and their association with recidivism.

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Durkin, Keith F. "Accounts and sexual deviance in cyberspace : the case of pedophilia /." Diss., This resource online, 1996. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-151315/.

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Breitbeil, John William. "Mediating the Influence of Deviant Peers." W&M ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626194.

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Phtiaka, Helen. "School deviance : an evaluation of the division between mainstream and special education at secondary school level, with special reference to deviant behaviour; a critical analysis of two case studies." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235987.

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Nilsson, Kent W. "Gene-Environment Interaction in Adolescent Deviant Behaviour." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Univ.-bibl. [distributör], 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-6536.

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Muir, Angela Joy. "Deviant maternity : illegitimacy in eighteenth-century Wales." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/32105.

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This thesis is a study of the prevalence, context, and experience of illegitimacy in Wales during the long eighteenth century, between approximately 1680 and 1800. It explores levels of illegitimacy across the Welsh counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, and investigates many of the underlying causes of childbirth outside of wedlock throughout eighteenth-century Wales. It is argued that Welsh illegitimacy was influenced by a combination of courtship-led marriage customs, a decline in traditional forms of social control, and worsening economic circumstances. In addition to exploring broader demographic trends, this study also examines the diverse individual identities, relationships and socioeconomic backgrounds of the mothers and fathers of illegitimate children in Wales, and the lived experience of conception, pregnancy and childbirth for unmarried mothers. The sexual encounters which resulted in the birth of an illegitimate child ranged from consensual sex which took place within the context of courtship, to sexual exploitation and rape. It is argued that these broad range of experiences are central to our understanding of illegitimacy. This thesis also examines infant and maternal survival chances, both in terms of overall risk of mortality in the days, weeks, and months after birth, and in terms of the ways in which fatal violence against illegitimate children and their mothers was contextualised in court records. These narratives reveal how the bodies of illegitimate infants and unmarried mothers often represented deviance, and served as the locus of anxieties surrounding unregulated reproduction. Finally, this study also analyses the provision of care for married and unmarried pauper women immediately before, during and after parturition. The skills, reputation, and availability of midwifery services in Wales are also explored. This thesis unites many disparate historical fields, including social and cultural history, historical demography, and the histories of crime, gender, sex, reproduction, and medicine, and analyses evidence from previously unstudied regions of Wales. It demonstrates that illegitimacy in eighteenth-century Wales was a deeply complex phenomenon governed by diverse regionally-specific social, cultural and economic influences.

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Gulley, Bill Linn 1949. "Developmental origins of deviance." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291451.

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Data concerning delinquency, deviance, and development were collected on over 800 adolescents aged 10 to 17. Structural models were constructed to investigate the effects of development (pubertal development and physical development) on delinquency. The view that variables typically used to define delinquency form a unitary latent trait was rejected. Instead two moderately related traits (r =.28) were required: (1) Criminal Behavior as defined by theft, aggression, and vandalism and (2) Autonomy Seeking Behavior as defined by substance use, sexual experimentation, and sensation seeking behaviors. Gender effects were found in levels of criminal behavior whereas autonomy seeking behavior was not so differentiated. Age effected only autonomy seeking behavior while pubertal development effected both traits. Differential gender effects were discovered in the influence of age on autonomy seeking behavior and the effect of pubertal development on both traits. Girls appear to be more strongly influenced by pubertal development for both traits while boys appear to be more susceptible to age effects.

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Leoni, Julie. "Gender, deviance and exclusion." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2005. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/139/.

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This study investigated why boys were more likely to be excluded than girls. The main research site was an 11-16 comprehensive in a market town, although findings were triangulated through a project in a feeder junior school. The research evolved in two phases. Phase One involved 67 loosely structured, fifty minute interviews with pupils who had been excluded for a fixed term. Phase Two involved four action research projects which triangulated and developed the Phase One findings. The projects consisted of an Anger Management therapeutic group with some of the excluded boys interviewed in Phase One, two days of staff training in Transactional Analysis, a self-discovery club with junior school pupils at risk of exclusion and a year 7 drama curriculum which taught Transactional Analysis, conflict resolution, meditation, emotional literacy and self-awareness. Findings were analysed using Strauss and Glaser’s concepts of grounded theory, emergent themes and the constant comparative method. Transactional Analysis was used as a practical as well as an analytic tool. The practical research took place between 1999 and 2002. The study found that all of the children who had been excluded were either threatened with loss or had suffered or were suffering from losses which threatened their safety and/or security. The effects of these losses gave rise to the emotions of bereavement which included anger. Boys and some girls used the emotion of anger as a mask for other emotions such as sadness and fear. The masking of vulnerable emotions was part of the way in which the boys constructed their masculinites. The losses brought with them loss of attachment and low self-esteem which led to students being more influenced by their peer group than by the adults around them. It was found that it was possible to counter the effect of these losses and the negative effects of the anger. The action research methods proved to offer part of the answer to the research questions. Trust was central to the development of new attachments and teachers could develop this trust using Adult-Adult behaviours, from an ‘I’m OK, You’re OK’ life position. Positive strokes encouraged desired behaviour. However, central to the ability to use these techniques was the concept of self-awareness that could be accessed through talking and being listened to by some one who did not judge. Meditation also proved to be helpful in bringing awareness and minimising stress. The concept of the Drama Triangle proved invaluable in understanding what occurred during exclusion incidents. Techniques were found to work with staff, secondary and primary school pupils. The implications of the research are that it is possible for staff to minimise exclusion incidents directly and indirectly by modelling peaceful behaviours. The research shows that pupils get excluded when they are under stress and that it might be profitable to listen to them after an exclusion to elicit their feelings. The study recommends future research which develops these ideas in other settings and investigates what happens for the teachers during an exclusion incident.

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Wang, Victoria. "Deviance in a cybercommunity." Thesis, Swansea University, 2009. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa43120.

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Are cybercommunities new 'hotbeds of deviance'? Current research on deviance in cybercommunities seems to suggest that some fundamental characteristics of these communities, such as anonymity, have resulted in high levels of deviance. To achieve a fresh and deeper understanding, this thesis explores, theoretically and empirically, the nature of deviance in cybercommunities in the context of a thorough sociological account of the conditions and characteristics of modernity. Drawing on ideas mainly from Giddens' theories of modernity, the formation and various aspects of cybercommunities may be understood as extreme products of modernity. This research aims to meld theory and empirical work together to achieve a coherent account of deviance in cybercommunities. Giddens' theories form an abstract framework, which places the research in a particular theoretical position where the relevance for criminology of the general social theory of Giddens, is analysed. During the empirical investigation, these theories are used as a set of guidelines to direct and shape the identification of the four main research themes: norm, power, self-identity and conformity, as well as, the collection of data. Next, Giddens' notions, such as time space distanciation, transformation of intimacy and reflexivity, alongside the four main themes, are central to the reflexive and coherent account of deviance in Second Life in Chapter Five (Understanding Deviance in Second Life). In accordance with the interpretive relationship between theory and empirical work, this research couples a grounded theory approach with adaptive theorising. Special attention is paid to the use of technologies that are native to cybercommunities in the research process. The cybercommunity Second Life is selected as a research field, because it may be understood as an exemplar of modernity, both sociologically and technologically. Through an in-depth analysis of data gathered from online participant observation, questionnaire and discussion in a Second Life residential forum, this research shows that the deviance in cybercommunities may not necessarily mean any 'real' deviance in these communities, but reflects some broader social anxieties born out of, and associated with, the conditions of modernity. The thesis concludes by stressing the questionable effectiveness of technology as a regulator, both in Second Life and in the real world, and advocates the importance of social bond as a mediator of deviance.

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Matuschek, Ingo. "Zeit und Devianz." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/14518.

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Die Arbeit untersucht in zeittheoretischer Perspektive, in welcher Weise subjektives Zeitempfinden und sozial gestaltete Zeitrahmen deviantes Verhalten Jugendlicher strukturiert. Dazu werden in den ersten Kapiteln sozialwissenschaftliche Zeittheorien vorgestellt. Im Mittelpunkt der Dissertation steht die Rekonstruktion individueller Zeitmodi. Grundlage ist eine qualitative Längsschnittstudie. Neben relevanten Einstellungen und Alltagspraktiken werden auch Verlaufsformen und Konsequenzen im Zusammenhang mit dem Statusübergang von der Schule in den Beruf thematisiert. Besondere Beachtung findet das Phänomen der Langeweile bzw. der Umgang damit. Abschließend wird die Bedeutung sozial vermittelter Zeitgestaltung in bezug auf deviantes Handeln zusammengefasst.
Set in a theoretical perspective of time the dissertation focuses on how deviant behavior of adolescents is structured by subjective perception of time and socially-managed time frameworks. Accordingly, the first chapters survey sociological theories of time. The main focus of the dissertation is on the reconstruction of individual time schemes. Based on a longitudinal study, the dissertation deals with relevant attitudes and everyday conduct as well as process patterns and consequences in the context of changeover of status from school to occupation. Special attention is paid to the phenomenon of boredom and how it is dealt with. In conclusion the meaning of socially-managed time is summarized in relation to deviant behavior.

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Malesky, Lann Alvin. "Sexually deviant internet usage by child sex offenders." Full text available online (restricted access), 2002. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/Malesky.pdf.

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Watson, Mary. "The cutting edge : deviant realisms and cinematic disruption." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8125.

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This thesi explores two possibilities and relates them to each other: infusions of fantasy (or magic, the dream, the ,marvellous) which undermine realism and the use of disruption as a specific strategy for communicating disorder or elusive experience. It examines the expression of both fantasy and disruption with an emphasis on film editing. This study considers editing as the foundation of narrative structure in film, and explores the effects of alternative articulations of space, time and the body in film that deliberately subvert the norms of continuity editing.

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Black, Quentin. "A review of behaviour disorder and the use of the Carlson Psychological Survey (CPS) as a diagnostic screening instrument in the forensic setting /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PM/09pmb627.pdf.

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Narayanan, Kanimozhi. "Workplace destructive and constructive deviance behaviour in India and the USA : scale development, validation, theoretical model development and testing." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31428.

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Workplace deviance behaviour has resulted in 20% of business failure and annual loss of $6-$200 billion in US organizations and it was found that 33% to 75% of employees engage in deviant activities like withdrawal, theft, production deviance, abuse of co-workers etc., (Coffin, 2003; Diefendorff & Mehta, 2007). In addition, several researchers have concentrated on constructive deviance that would benefit the organizations. Thus, deviance has been a topic of interest for many researchers. However, previous research on deviance behaviour has concentrated predominantly in the USA despite proof that Indian organizations are indeed affected by workplace deviance (Pradhan & Pradhan, 2014) and on destructive or constructive deviance. In addition, from the deviance perspective, surprisingly no study so far has examined the presence and effects of individualism and collectivism within the same culture at the individual level. To contribute towards the extant deviance literature and to fill in the aforementioned gaps, this PhD thesis develops and tests a model using social cognitive theory as a lens to determine the relationship between environment, personality and behavioural outcomes of an individual. It incorporates workplace destructive and constructive deviance in the same study with individualistic and collectivistic orientation of individuals as moderators in India and the USA. What is the relationship of organizational and individual determinants with workplace destructive and constructive deviance when individual cultural orientation acts as a moderator? For this purpose, this research first determines the various factors that will be considered in the model by reviewing previous research done on workplace deviance. It was found that organizational climate, though it contributes to deviance behaviour in the workplace, has not yet been extensively researched so, climate was one of the factors examined in the research. In addition and despite its importance, an individual witness perspective towards deviance is still in its infancy. What are the behavioural responses of an individual while being a witness to supervisor, organizational, co-worker involvement in workplace destructive deviance? Therefore, the present study extended, developed and validated a construct to define and measure the witness behaviour towards workplace deviance behaviour using the theory of planned behaviour as its theoretical lens. This construct formed the second factor to be included in the model. This research makes use of the multi-strategy research paradigm that consists of two main studies: Study 2, 3 and 4 involves the development and validation of the witness behaviour towards workplace deviance scale; Study 5 involves the development and testing of a theoretical framework. Study 2 to 4 made use of a mixed methods strategy and inductive approach where the results from analysing the qualitative one-to-one interviews conducted in India and the USA formed the basis of scale construction. The scale, after undergoing rigorous analysis by using the quantitative data collected from India and the USA, resulted in a two-dimensional self-serving and intervening behaviour 9-item measure that proved to be a universal construct. It was then validated for construct, discriminant and predictive validity to classify it within the nomological network. It was found to sit closer to the phenomenon of voluntary behaviours, thus contributing to deviance and scale development literature. Study 5 involved the development of a conceptual framework that was tested with the quantitative data collected from India and the USA. The results provided support that when an individual has high organizational climate experience as well as more self-serving and less intervening behaviour, he/she would be involved in more constructive and destructive deviance behaviour providing support that organizations should focus on these factors and a clear distinction should be made between negative and positive deviance accepted within the organization. The results also provided support that individualistic and collectivistic orientation of an individual did moderate the effect of organizational climate, self-serving and intervening behaviour with destructive and constructive deviance. Therefore, an individual's orientation to individualism and collectivism would influence the relationship of organizational climate and witness behaviour towards workplace deviance so that organizations may benefit from implementing the study findings and suggestions. This would then prevent individuals from becoming involved in destructive deviance and enhance their involvement in constructive deviance.

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Bader, Christopher David. "A deductive theory of deviance /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8890.

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Monteiro, Necy de Arruda. "Lexico-semantic deviances in English." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFPR, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1884/24363.

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Blakely, Stephanie Dawn. "Risk factors that affect test scores, specifically deviant behavior." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/2440.

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This study attempts to identify the effect that deviance has on high school test scores. Using the Educational Longitudinal Survey, 2002, student role performance, family, peer, and school factors were examined to see the effect they had on test scores. After separating the sample by deviance, the same variables were examined to see if being deviant strengthened the effect the variables had on test scores. Deviance was found to lower test scores by -0.546 points using multiple regression analysis. Using a partitioning of variance, the student role performance factors (which included deviance) were found to explain the greatest amount of variance in test scores. While deviance did affect test scores, other factors such as socio-economic status were shown to have a greater effect than deviance. Future research might focus on when discrepancies start between groups in education in order to solve the problems at earlier ages.
Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Sociology

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Pearson, Adrian D. "Media influence on deviant behavior in middle school students /." Electronic version (PDF), 2006. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2006/pearsona/adrianpearson.pdf.

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Baker, Joseph O. Bader Christopher David. "A quantitative investigation of normative and deviant religious experiences." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5041.

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Hoogesteger, Naomi May Jensen. "Deviant women in courtly and popular medieval Castilian poetry." Thesis, Durham University, 2012. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3368/.

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This thesis is a study of the figure of the deviant woman in the poetry of medieval Spain; it outlines and establishes paradigms of acceptable and unacceptable attitudes and behaviours. The ideal comportment of woman in the Middle Ages is decreed by the Church and the aristocracy. However, woman is wont to rebel against the strict norms of patriarchy laid down for her. Through close poetic analysis, this thesis aims to expose and analyse women who deviate from the ideal, an axis which is based upon the ideal woman of Fray Martín Alonso de Córdoba’s Jardín de nobles donzellas (1469) and supported by historical contextualisation. Due to the expanse of the medieval poetic corpus, I focus specifically on women in the forms of medieval poetry that were sung: villancicos, canciones, and also serranillas, a strand of the erudite canción. The poems originate in Iberian songbooks (cancioneros), and loose leafs (pliegos sueltos). The modern editions that I use are Brian Dutton & Jineen Krogstad’s El cancionero del siglo XV: c. 1360-1520 (1990-91) and Margit Frenk’s Nuevo corpus de la antigua lírica popular hispánica (siglos XV a XVII) (2003). Initially, I establish the paradigm of the ideal late-medieval woman, whose subservience, chastity, and beauty are at the fore of her representation. Throughout the thesis, deviant women are seen to subvert these expectations in a variety of ways; principally through their promiscuity and dominant manner. Although for the most part, deviant women are portrayed in lyrics, the canciones also provide portrayals of deviant women that are less perceptible, yet still fascinating. An overall typology of deviant women has been established through the thesis, but equally significantly, close readings of many of the poems will augment the comprehension of the wider corpus.

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Frazer, P. "Deviant mobility in early modern English literature and culture." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546343.

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Yung, Lai-fong Edith, and 容麗芳. "Popular culture and deviant youth behaviour in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31978800.

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Chu, Man-ying, and 朱文英. "Information security deviant behavior: its typology, measures, and causes." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48079613.

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Although information security is important to all organizations, little behavioral research has been carried out in this area. Particularly lacking is research on negative forms of behavior involved in information security. The aim of this thesis is to fill this research gap by conducting three related studies on information security deviant behavior (ISDB), which refers to the voluntary behavior of employees within organizations that differs markedly from the information security norms of the organizations and that is normally considered by other employees to be wrong. Prior research work on this topic is insufficient, and the information security deviance concept remains unclear. This thesis explores the topic by considering three fundamental research questions: 1) What is ISDB? 2) How can ISDB be measured? 3) Why do employees commit ISDB? Study I addresses the first question—“What is ISDB?”—by identifying and organizing ISDB using a typology. A four-step method, comprising content analysis, multidimensional scaling, expert judgmental analysis, and empirical testing, is proposed for the development of typologies, which can fulfill the criteria for being a theory. The findings of this study suggest that ISDB can be organized into four ideal types that are interrelated along two dimensions—severity and frequency. Four constructs are identified from this typology. They are resource misuse (“high frequency, high severity” deviance), security carelessness (“high frequency, low severity” deviance), access control deviance (“low frequency, low severity” deviance), and system protection deviance (“low frequency, high severity” deviance). Study I not only develops an organized and theoretical framework for systematic research on ISDB and constitutes a critical starting point for the development of measures of the behavior, but also makes an important theoretical contribution by demonstrating the development of a typology, which is a unique form of theory building for an underdeveloped topic. Study II focuses on the second research question—“How can ISDB be measured?”—by developing valid and reliable scales to measure ISDB. My target is to develop scales to measure commonly found types of ISDB using an empirical method. Accordingly, the two “low frequency” types of deviance, access control and system protection deviance, are omitted from consideration. A rigorous measurement development process which includes three surveys and a number of tests is adopted. A four-item scale of resource misuse and a three-item scale of security carelessness are developed. The development of these two scales makes an important contribution to future ISDB research by providing a means to measure two types of information security deviance, thus facilitating the empirical study of ISDB. Study III is aimed at answering the third research question—“Why do employees commit ISDB?”—through construction of a causal model. Rather than consider “intention” as existing behavioral research on information security commonly does, Study III investigates actual behavior and employs resource misuse (“high frequency, high severity” deviance) as the dependent variable. Data from a Web-based survey are analyzed using the partial least squares approach. Considering the dual-process approach in the theory of planned behavior, the findings suggest that resource misuse may be both an intentional type of behavior and an unreasoned action. Perceived behavioral control influences employees’ resource misuse actions via their desires or intentions, whereas attitude toward resource misuse affects these actions via employees’ desires alone. Subjective norm is found not to affect employees’ resource misuse via either desires or intentions. In terms of the theoretical contributions, Study III takes steps to consider information security deviance by incorporating the dual-process approach and the theory of planned behavior. In terms of managerial significance, the results of Study III can help managers to better understand why employees commit resource misuse. In conclusion, this thesis provides a number of significant insights into ISDB and useful guidelines for further research on the topic. In addition, the findings of the three studies can help managers to develop better company strategies and policies to reduce internal security threats.
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Yung, Lai-fong Edith. "Popular culture and deviant youth behaviour in Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20622296.

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Uribe, Tinoco Maria Nicte-ha. "Understanding deviant behaviors through coercion and social support theory." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2009. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.

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Lance, Jennifer R. "The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Adolescent Deviant Behavior." DigitalCommons@USU, 2003. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2521.

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This thesis summarizes a study conducted to explore the relationship between emotional intelligence and adolescent deviancy. The primary goal of this study was to investigate the relation between 1) overall emotional intelligence plus its subscales and overall normative deviant behavior, and 2) emotional intelligence subscales and subscales of a deviancy measure. Tapia's Emotional Intelligence Inventory (Eli) and Vazsonyi's Normative Deviancy Scale (NDS) were used to measure the two variables of this study. Subjects included 152 high school students, aged 14-18, from a small city in Northern Utah. One hundred seventeen students came from a local high school comprising grades 10-12 and a junior high school comprising grade 9. The remaining 35 students attended an alternative high school, which comprised grades 9-12. Findings reveal that overall emotional intelligence was not correlated with overall deviant behavior. Two subscales of Eli, handling relationships and self-control, were statistically significant in relation to the vandalism, general deviance, and assault subscales of the NDS. Results may be contingent on the type of sample obtained and testing procedures. Further research is needed to validate these fin dings.

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FOLCI, ILARIA. "ADOLESCENTI TRA REALTÀ DI TRASGRESSIONE E SCELTE DI VALORI. PROSPETTIVE PEDAGOGICHE." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/687.

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Il presente lavoro di ricerca indaga la trasgressione in adolescenza,analizzando in prospettiva pedagogica sia il significato che questa assume nel percorso di crescita individuale, sia alcuni possibili interventi educativi a livello individuale,di gruppo classe e familiare utili per arginare il fenomeno sempre più dilagante di bullismo e devianza di gruppo.
The research wants to investigate the adolescent world,in particular the transgression that all days shakes the balance not only social, but also school and familiar areas. The analysis in of pedagogical nature and wants to give some areas of educational circles useful for parents, teachers and professionals that work in social activities with children.

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Gannett, Lisa Anne. "Genetic variation, difference, deviation, or deviance?" Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0023/NQ31121.pdf.

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Schnupp, Rebecca J. "Adolescent Deviance within Families and Neighborhoods." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1285687987.

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Mitchell, Trent Russell. "Normalization of Deviance in Mining Engineering." Thesis, The University of Utah, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10603711.

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Normalization of deviance has been thoroughly studied and proven to have a dramatic impact on the medical industry, particularly in the field of anesthesiology, and for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Few such studies have been conducted in the mining industry. This research was designed to show whether normalization of deviance is occurring within the subculture of mining engineers.

This research project was based on a cross-sectional surveillance of a group of mining engineers and consultants belonging to the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME).

There were three hypotheses for this research: 1) there is a correlation between ethics, compensation, risk tolerance, and normalization of deviance; 2) there are either positive or negative associations between each of the independent variables—ethics, compensation, and risk tolerance—to the dependent variable—normalization of deviance; 3) the data would make it possible to predict normalization of deviance among mining engineers. All three hypotheses were proven true in this study.

This research is important because it shows that normalization of deviance exists among mining engineers.

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