youth deviance has always been a major concern and an irritant issue and the focal attention among various societies and it has also been the focus of attention by a large number of authorities. this sociological study deals with the cultural tendency of the youth to deviance by a sociological procedure. using a clustering method, in this survey, the data were obtained from a sample including 3...

This book is one of a series now being placed upon the market, dealing with b"1 psychiatric ill health and delinquent behaviour as part of a general social disor^ The author, Mr. Wilkins, from his recent position in the Home Office Research U1" was in a unique position to survey both fields. This book contains the product of ̂ fertile brain, whilst visiting the United States recently as a visiti...

Youth deviance has always been a major concern and an irritant issue and the focal attention among various societies and it has also been the focus of attention by a large number of authorities. This sociological study deals with the cultural tendency of the youth to deviance by a sociological procedure. Using a clustering method, in this survey, the data were obtained from a sample including 3...

This article explores the question of whether different social control mechanisms contribute to social disorganization and consequent deviance. Two groups of Yup'ik Eskimo were compared on reported felonies and misdemeanors. One group belongs to a sovereignty movement called the "Yupi'it Nation." Some member villages in this group have abolished their own tribal courts. The other group has main...

BACKGROUND We have previously shown highly elevated antisocial symptoms and measures of social deviance proneness and antisocial disposition in long-term abstinent alcohol dependence versus non-substance-abusing controls (NSAC). Current antisocial symptoms were reduced to subdiagnostic levels in long-term abstinence; however, the number of current symptoms was not measured beyond its being subd...

In this article, the authors develop a definition of positive deviance, a foundational construct in positive organizational scholarship. They offer a normative definition of positive deviance: intentional behaviors that depart from the norms of a referent group in honorable ways. The authors contrast this normative perspective on deviance with statistical, supraconformity, and reactive perspect...

cities, as the focused centers for human residence and settlement, are faced with various issues and problems. the high rate of crime and anomic behavior are characteristics of today’s major cities. fear of crime and anomic behavior is perceived as the most important reasons leading to a decline in the use of public spaces in cities by its residents. according to the mutual relation between env...

The "traditional" use of the Positive Deviance approach to behavior change involves studying children who thrive despite adversity, identifying uncommon model behaviors among Positive Deviant families, and then designing and implementing an intervention to replicate these behaviors among mothers of malnourished children. This article presents the results of a literature review designed to gathe...

The utility of psychopathy measures in predicting violence is largely explained by their assessment of social deviance (e.g., antisocial behavior; disinhibition). A key question is whether social deviance interacts with the core interpersonal-affective traits of psychopathy to predict violence. Do core psychopathic traits multiply the (already high) risk of violence among disinhibited individua...