RESPONSE TO CO–STUDENT
I agree that deviancy is a mannerism whether affected or learned. When viewing of usual social norms, society and civilization has the ability to change and evolve but the customary mores are adhered to and help establish and prevent derailing of correct behavior and conduct. Although deviation is a point the act of deviancy is leveled and grounded in rebellion and resistance to the structuralized guardians erected to protect society and keep the level of behavior civilized and ensure safety of the masses.
When an act of deviancy spirals out of control or is deliberately manipulated the inability to maintain law, safety for the people is uppermost in concern and thought. Without order there is no society or civilization to evolve, love or care for. Further, I also agree that deviance can be a criminal act or noncriminal act with infiltration of acts that can move it past the act of deviancy to a criminal offense.
I disagree deviance is not a crime, society is in effect creating acts of deviance when they disagree and challenge laws whether because of bias, racism, mental cruelty, hardship or possible oppression and suppression. These acts are not necessarily criminal but realization is the government is the people and for the people and their good always. Fairness and justice for all is ringing throughout the country with pleas for mercy, clemency and apology but the right to disagree stands tall always.
Further as we evolve the acts of dress or attire has changed through the years but not the wish for a continued moralistic, Christian strong country to keep our young from corruption and loss of nation. Active felonious crimes which are harm to self, individuals are still criminal and acts of deviance that are not considered a blasé approach to dealing with situations, scenarios or people who mean harm or threat.
Although unusual dyeing of hair does not always have a symbolic reason as far as hatred is perceived as a reason. Possible reason is to create a separate persona, difference, uniqueness or true self. Being misunderstood or placing too much emphasis on exterior leads to bias and prejudice. One cannot dictate because the right to freedom allows the person to control his self, body, mind and soul.
Thank you.
Felicia
RESPONSE TO CO–STUDENT
Although deviancy is sometimes seen as a negative to social norms as pertains to the eyes and mind of the receptor or observer. But the allocating of what is acceptable is questionable and becomes a query and question as to the effect on the lives of people and the ability to change or alter behavior. Therefore, the acts perceived as deviant are and may not be a conflictual basis against social norms and what is viewed as acceptable depending on the effect on the populace.
As with Martin Luther King, Jr. his quest for the rights of the color people made him to be perceived as a deviant. But a deviant for what cause…the allegation of deviancy is pinpointed by the dominant race and the active level of oppression and suppression. It is not necessarily the act but the fight to be viewed as human with equal rights that is viewed as deviant and threat. Being a different does not make a person deviant or the acts of that person due to personal freedom and speech and action within the boundary of law.
Deviancy when it reaches the level of criminal and criminal intent and deliberacy becomes the act of true threat to the entire (populace) and the summarily defense to maintain life, protection of family, threat to family and situational activities bound in the freedom of this country.
I disagree that the acts of the officers are deviant but are criminal and reflect a taint on the legal system and violation of the Code of Ethics sworn in by our State and their own destroyed honor and principles. The inmate is deviant because they are sin and corruption and will try all to degrade the legal system and law and officer. Without honor a man or woman is nothing.
Thank you.
Felicia
Week 1 Discussion
"Nature vs. Nurture" Please respond to the following:
Create a definition of what is deviant based upon your readings and research (do not provide Webster or Wikipedia dictionary for the definition). Next, make the distinction between "deviance" and "crime". Provide an example of something that is considered deviant behavior and NOT criminal behavior OR something that is criminal behavior but NOT deviant behavior. Provide a rationale to support your response.
Deviant behavior per se is behavior that is seen as innocuous which perceivably veers toward alteration of behavior that is against norms, taboos or structuralized conduct in society. The usual perception of deviance is the lack of conformity to societal norms or societal expectations. As in relation to a possible predatorial act the act of deviance can also be perceived as prosocial behaviors or nonviolent common offenses as incivility, a person’s thoughts or beliefs, anarchism, atheism or effective physical appearance. Further these acts of deviance when the purpose of identifying cause a causal effect when the “questionable behavior” causes the dominant majority to experience discomfit and loss of status.
Also, these ritualistic acts of deviance are inherently instilled due to familial norms, religion, education, public opinion or with the active fight of Martin Luther King’s right for equality and rights for the people was seen or as an act of deviance because of the people’s cry of injustice, affective subjugation and oppression and the right to continued freedom to protest a wrong.
With the fidelity of deviance comes the question of whether nature versus nurture can question the acts of human behavior, attitudes and personalities and whether there is an innate biological contributor or genetic factor that would solidify the reason for deviance. As such the act of life experience converged with experiential learning to reveal a psychological effect that causes an alteration of traditions, customs and behavioral changes that affect livelihood and interactive challenges and world perception. Therefore, human behavior is altered with the changed in “conceived norms” created by the active and leader even though the infringement is on both the formal and informal violation of social norms that are relational standard norms for society that are relative to a viewed social context as either deviant or non-deviant.
Thus deviant acts are viewed as mala in se when the realized concept that these acts are conflictual to nolmalcy and veer toward a status of falsely accusing, pure deviance, conforming, and secret deviance to reflectively reveal a distinguishable pattern distributed from the dominant values and belief of society. From this point comes the violation of culturally established norms, values and beliefs that respectively clash from culture to culture and reflect a diverse vision. Further deviant or supposed deviancy does not always denote a negative but has potential to result in positive connotations. But as Durkheim suggest deviant behavior sometimes result in initiating social changes when a solidified stance reveals that the active deviance is first corrective and secondly reestablishes a corrective attending to social norms, taboos to keep restrictive and legalities that govern and control acts of criminality. Further deviancy allows a clarifying of what is correct and what is not.
In the manner of crime these are affective acts of offenses against the people, the state and country. Its purpose is the usurping of written legalities composed to protect the populace from those who disregard the act of morality, who act with deliberacy to hurt or kill or injure, as well as interpret contexts that reveal an act of malicious threat. As such the criminal intent is established by either mens rea or a guilty mind with the state of actus reas reflecting a willing act that appalls the conscious thought and mind.
Therefore, as crime is a factor in society the argument that variables exists that perpetuates these acts and defies the thought that fixed behaviors can constrictively or be restricted to defined behaviors or acts of seen or unseen. As a parallel the view of culture and subcultures have similarity but due to distinctive cultures crime is different depending on norms of conduct, tradition and laws.
Therefore, the poem written by W.S. Gilbert (1885), The Mikado shows the purpose of the pursuing and chase of cat and mouse and halting of a criminal act as follows:
My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time
To let the punishment fit the crime,
The punishment fit the crime;
And make each prisoner repent
Unwillingly represent
A source of innocent merriment,
Of innocent merriment!
W. S. Gilbert (1885), The Mikado
As well as the quote from William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 2, Scene 2, which reveals a purpose of determining which is worst deviance or an act of crime in its true actuality as follows:
“Is it her fault or mine?
The tempter or the tempted—who sins the most?”
William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 2, Scene 2.
The difference between deviance and crime depends on the parameters that control and define both acts and the allocated range if it can be proven a crime or if the act of deviance can be used to facilitate crimes and contribute to the usurping of protection afforded to all citizens. Deviance as explained is not usually viewed as a crime but when the state of criminal acts become involved then deviance is no longer a positive or negative but a summarily channel to facilitate acts of conspiracy and outright antagonized attacks of a criminal nature that violates the Constitution, Amendment 9, Amendment 14, Amendment 15 - Section 1.
Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research one (1) criminal case from your state in which authorities found the defendant to be engaging in deviant behavior. Next, identify the type of deviant behavior in which the defendant was engaged, and specify at least one characteristic of the defendant’s behavior that likely led the authorities to consider his or her actions deviant. Justify your position.
For example,
The Act of Bullying
This aggressive behavior consists of the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively dominate others. What spurs this type of behavior is multitude, notoriety, race, imbalance of social and physical power, targeting, needing recognition, power struggle, being able to get into a click, criminal initialization, seduction, cruel amusement, sociopathy, hate, loathing, supposed superiority, status in society, hostility, control, imbalance of power, popularity, emotional imbalance, mental control, mobbing to conceal all, relational bullying, conspiracy if massively done, criminal intent, jealousy, racial hate, low self-esteem, obsession, killer, murderer, brain abnormality, overt aggressive behavior.
Because of the extensive list of what is an incinerator to destruction of a target, it is the stimulation of jealousy and intentional hidden prodding or overt goading that cause bullying to continue and is due to predators who chase and torment the prey by voicing and verbally expressing fabrications to destroy a life by those who usually have “nothing” or considers themselves “nothing” and wishes to share their dismal state with others. Although bullying is not viewed as a criminal act but with unrelenting attacks that concur and change when it is used to control another free equal person, their rights to procreate, or freedom to live with freedom with no acts of slander that causes shame or actively cause and remove a personal ability free livelihood and to make a gainful living.
When an active state of attack includes terroritories that exceed home city or village then the act becomes criminal because of the mass state of depression experienced as well as when note or knowledge is known that an illness exist or has been suffered the attack becomes criminal and if of a different race or not then the act becomes racial as well as possibly reverse racism. If the intent becomes a blatant act to cause despair and suicide the act is criminal and should be charged as predatorial pursuit (stalking).
In the case of bullying, Northhampton, Massachusetts, where two teens (with others) were accused of harassing a 15 year old Irish born classmate (Phoebe Prince) were sentenced to a year of probation in Hampshire Superior Court, where Sean Mulveyhill and Kayla Narey, both 18, were sentenced for their roles in bullying that caused Phoebe to commit suicide.
Due to the intense nature of stalking, verbal assault and active disbursing of shameful insults relating to her heritage, parentage and moral status on a daily basis this summarily eroded her ability to withstand and continue and caused her to commit suicide. The defendants’ behavior were not deviant but intentionally cruel and deliberate with acts of physical threat, intimidation, fear but with the other students attacking this could be attributed to deviance by emulation if the behavior stopped. But if all continued to attack then the level spirals to criminal and should have been charged with intimidation, stalking and I feel involuntary manslaughter because of the girl’s youth and inability to withstand the cruelty, shame, deception and betrayal and colossal depression she suffered.
Thank you.
Felicia
References
Bullying. (2017, July 02). Retrieved July 05, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying
Two teens in Mass. bullying case plead guilty. (2011, May 04). Retrieved July 05, 2017, from http://www.nbcnews.com/id/42898390/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/two-teens-mass-bullying-case-plead-guilty/
Suicide of Phoebe Prince. (2017, July 02). Retrieved July 05, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Phoebe_Prince
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