Deviant behavior on the Web: cyberbullying

The Impact of the Internet on Deviant Behavior and Deviant Communities

Online deviant behavior refers to a range of activities, some considered illegal, some considered amoral, many considered both. The Internet has transformed the accessibility of information and enabled individuals with common beliefs to find each other and reinforce behaviors considered unacceptable. Pathological individuals, once limited by time, space, and societal constraints, use virtual co...

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...

Moral Spillovers: The Effect of Moral Violations on Deviant Behavior

Two experiments investigated whether outcomes that violate people’s moral standards increase their deviant behavior (the moral spillover effect). In Study 1, participants read about a legal trial in which the outcome supported, opposed or was unrelated to their moral convictions. Relative to when outcomes supported moral convictions, when outcomes opposed moral convictions people judged the out...

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...