The Deviant Acts At An Early Age

People who suffer from personality disorders often display deviant behavior. The mental illness itself is not deviant. They typically have problems with social skills, mood swings, emotional states, and are often unable to maintain healthy, stable relationships. Many sufferers do not possess the capability to have genuine emotions, including empathy for others. A personality disorder is the basis of many circumstances of maladaptive behavior including substance abuse, self-harm, suicide, and criminality.

If I were the king or Queen of the Kingdom by making strict laws where everyone who breaks the law should be enroll in forceful rehabilitation programs for mild deviances and incarceration for those criminal offences. I will lead with the purpose of transparency and doing the correct things to build trust in my kingdom and lead by example. Deviant behaviors include all those violations of social norms or breaking the law. This includes any behavior that is not normal within the individual’s normal behavior. In our society all, the behaviors are seen either as deviant or as a normal behavior. The lecture # 3 of the class explains, “It is not the act itself, but the reaction to the act, that makes something deviant.” There are many unique groups

The psychic of the young person is shaped by social interactions as well as the parental training. Often the young murderers were brought in pathological environments, they did not experience the parental love and acceptance, and they forced themselves to drown particular emotions so as not to appear weak. All these factors results in social dysfunctions that triggers violence and violence becomes the perfect self-defense mechanism, because it brings attention. According to the FBI’s list of traits that describe young murderers the most common syndromes are the feeling of isolation, the narcissist disorder, and depression6. A perfect example to support the above argument will be a background check of Jeff Weise, a young sixteen-year-old boy who killed 9 people and committed suicide in the Red Lake Senior High School in Minnesota in 2005. Weise’s family was the kind of pathological one, his parents were separated, his mother had a habit of drinking too much being an abusive alcoholic, what is more Weise himself was often bullied at school7.

DiIulio also described these young people as “fatherless, Godless, and jobless” and as “radically impulsive, brutally remorseless youngsters, including ever more teenage boys, who murder, assault, rob, burglarize, deal deadly drugs, join gun-toting gangs, and create serious disorders” (DiLulio, 1995, p. 23).

1. What are the consequences of labeling? 2. Being labeled because for your actions did it affect your personal life? 3.

also states that our instincts are subdued by socialization, but for some the socialization is

Adolescents think that death is the best solution or that it does not matter what they do because they are young and they do not have to worry about the risks. Adolescents ignore the danger of their actions and do not realize how can that affect in the future ; their risky decisions can end in police conflicts, sexual diseases, commitment of suicide and violence

these murderous teens had a history of being bullied and a history of acting out that resulted in arrest. Over half these adolescents had a history of drug abuse. Further, theses teens surveyed in the study all used guns, with the most common being a 12 gauge shotgun and had mentioned killing or harming peers before. Finally, almost all of these mass murders took place at schools with a few exceptions (Meloy et al., 2001).

According to www.teenrehabcenter.org, 68% of 12th graders have tried alcohol and high school seniors are about as likely to smoke weed as they are to drink. Throughout high school I knew numerous people that smoked and drinked or that have tried it, but I am proud to say that I was part of the 32% of high school seniors that never experimented with smoking nor drinking. Not having contributed to this deviant behavior or having contributed results because of different theories that one believes or has gone through.

crime as individual choice. They focus on the factors of the role of parents and one’s

I enjoyed reading your post. It is hard to tell from your post if you feel that deviant behavior is innate or learned; nevertheless, you provided numerous examples of how deviant behavior is learned. I personally feel that this type of behavior is something that one learns. I believe that we are all “good” until something has taught up otherwise. Like your post mentioned, differential association theory suggests that deviant behavior or criminal acts are learned through the people that one associates themselves with (“Symbolic Interactionist,” 2015).

Deviance is described as being behaviour that is not part of the norms in your particular society. This can be different throughout the world because some cultures have very different norms (Stephens and Leach, 1998:17). Most deviant behaviour will attract disapproval from others in the society or punishment from authorities. There are many different types of deviance such as addiction, mental illness, alcoholism, criminality and homosexuality. Throughout this essay six types of theories will be discussed about how and why people are deviant. Four of these theories support the idea of deviance being biological and three support the idea of it being caused by your social construction. Also the essay will talk about the differences between

Jesus Christ was crucified with two robbers; the two robbers were both suffered for crimes that they had committed. Before they were all reviled Him but one of them changed his mind and rebuked his friend for his irreverence. He then asked the Lord to remember him when the Lord comes into His kingdom, which is when He came back and set up His kingdom on earth. Jesus rewarded the thief for his faith by promising him that He will be with him in paradise the very same day (Luke 23:39-43 NKJV).

In the United States of America, societal deviance changes nearly on a daily basis. Depending on the current culture, deviance is modified to make societal heroes like celebrities, political figures, and sport players look less deviant and more like role models for the public. The change in what is considered “normal” is customarily a result of society in general. By using a reference group of people, individuals tend to identify with those who are in the lime light. Then when that role model does something appalling, the public becomes desensitized to this behavior and its abnormality and becomes less distinct thus adding to the change in social deviances.

Deviance among adolescents in our society has many different causes and multiple theories throughout the history of criminal justice have been developed to attempt to explain, prevent and reduce incidents of status offenses and juvenile delinquency. There are theories varying from individual, to social and environmental. All of these theories have their merits and contribute in one way or another to the advancement of the understanding of juvenile delinquency and the treatment and prevention of delinquency within our society. Those that have proven to be successful we have applied in our justice system while those that are proven over time to be ineffective or defective we have discarded. There is no single theory that applies to all delinquent behavior in all situations. It is best to determine what theory may work best in each specific case based on the individual and the specific situation. Dodge’s information processing theory of social problem solving (Crick and Dodge 1994) was developed by Kenneth Dodge in an attempt to explain the interaction between the child’s cognitive development and their social environment. This theory combines elements of both the individual and the social environment and examines how these two variables interact with each other to present a model for juvenile delinquency. During my investigation of this topic I discovered that an adapted model of Dodge’s theory existed that seemed to be more encompassing of the causes of juvenile delinquency,