This study analyzed the mediating effect of turnover intention (TI) on relationship between psychological contract violation (PCV) and workplace deviance (WPD), effects PCV TI, TI WPD. Explanatory research design was used employing stratified random sampling techniques to collect data from 443 employees Agriculture Food Authority Directorates in Kenya. Self-administered structured questionnaire...

This study examined adolescent attachment organization as a predictor of the development of social skills and delinquent behavior during midadolescence. Delinquent activity and skill levels were assessed for 117 moderately at-risk adolescents at ages 16 and 18, and maternal and adolescent attachment organization and autonomy in interactions were assessed at age 16. Adolescent attachment securit...

This article will discuss how criminology has sought to understand the rave movement as a form of organised deviance and the societal reaction to it. In order to do this, the article will first outline how rave culture can be observed as a working class reaction to social inequality, and how rave parties enabled individuals to escape the reality of their social position. It will then examine ho...

Research with adults has demonstrated a "black sheep effect" (BSE) whereby, relative to evaluations of normative group members, ingroup deviants are derogated more than outgroup deviants. The developmental subjective group dynamics (DSGD) model holds that the BSE should develop during middle childhood when children apply wider social norms. Three hundred and thirty-eight children who were betwe...

This study examines the social construction of collective memory regarding American cities. Inspired by postmodern theory, both critical and urban, it argues that, in its efforts to expand its political power, the Conservative Elite has successfully waged a thirty year “mnemonic war” over the public memory of America’s central cities. It describes how in their attack, the Conservatives strategi...

This study examined a model of the simultaneous and interactive influence of social context, psychosocial attitudes, and individual maturity on the prediction of urban adolescent drug dealing. Five factors were found to significantly increase adolescents' opportunity for drug selling: low parental monitoring, poor neighborhood conditions, low neighborhood job opportunity, parental substance use...