Deviant behavior in postmodern: the philosophical legal determinants

Socially Deviant Behavior

(Author) A. self-administered questionnaire was used to'compare Tselected driving, personality, and psychosocial variables 'of 306 convicted male drunk drivers with those of 289 alcoholics and 269 controls. She drunk driver group fell between the other,groups on many parameters but resembled the control groUp on as many others. While some 40% of the drunk drivers appeareA to be alcoholics, they...

Genetic Determinants of Emotional Behavior: Legal Lessons from Genetic Models

The past decade of neuroscience research has been dedicated to the elucidation of the genetic heritability of mental processes and the role of specific genes in their regulation. A long reluctance to tackle questions related to the molecular basis of behavior has been overcome; genetic technologies and approaches to the question have developed and expanded. Psychology, which historically belong...

Domestic Violence and Deviant Behavior

Anomie, Deviant Behavior, and the Olympics

Criminal and deviant behavior is known to occur in all places, settings, and times. The Olympics, both_ Summer and ~inter, are not immune to deviant behavior. This paper focuses on the _spec1f1c types of d~v1ant and criminal acts arising out of the Olympic settings and the anomic factor~ tha_t possibly le~d t~ deviance in this particular arena. The way that athletes are confor~1sts_, innovators...

Sexually deviant behavior in expectant fathers.

A group of 91 expectant fathers examined in a court psychiatric clinic is compared with a group of 91 nonexpectant married males equated for age, race, and year of arrest. The hypothesis that sexually deviant reactions are more frequent in expectant fathers is statistically substantiated. Other findings are reported and discussed including the frequent occurrence of sexual offenses during the w...