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Deviant Behaviour and Social problems

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Deviant behaviour refers to actions that violate societal norms and expectations, often leading to social disapproval or sanctions. Social problems encompass issues that adversely affect individuals and communities, including crime, poverty, and inequality, which can be influenced by or contribute to deviant behaviour.
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Deviant behaviour refers to actions that violate societal norms and expectations, often leading to social disapproval or sanctions. Social problems encompass issues that adversely affect individuals and communities, including crime, poverty, and inequality, which can be influenced by or contribute to deviant behaviour.

Key research themes

1. What socio-cultural and individual factors predict or influence deviant behavior in adolescents and young people?

This research theme examines how family structures, peer groups, school environment, personality traits, socio-economic status, and psychological characteristics contribute to the adoption and escalation of deviant behaviors during adolescence and young adulthood. Understanding these predictors is critical because adolescence is a vulnerable developmental period where social integration, conformity to norms, and risk factors such as anomie can strongly impact behavioral trajectories.

Key finding: This large-scale study with 2,694 Bucharest adolescents identified that socio-cultural factors including family dynamics, peer group influences, school environment, and neighborhood contexts significantly predict the... Read more
Key finding: This paper empirically links specific personality traits—low conscientiousness, low agreeableness, and high neuroticism—as key psychological predictors associated with increased aggression and antisocial behavior in... Read more
Key finding: Through analysis of 65 Nigerian secondary school students involved in disciplinary infractions, this study found a statistically significant relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and deviant behaviors. The findings... Read more
Key finding: This comprehensive review establishes that age, gender, educational level, family status, and profession all significantly influence the propensity for deviant behaviors among youth aged 12 to 25. It notes that deviance is... Read more
Key finding: This work corroborates the centrality of individual developmental and social variables—including age, gender, education, profession, and family status—in the genesis of deviance among youth. It highlights that lack of... Read more

2. How does education mediate or mitigate deviant behavior and what role do structural inequalities play in this process?

Education is widely considered both a socializing agent promoting conformity to societal norms and a potential site for the amplification or deterrence of deviant behavior. This theme probes the mechanisms through which educational institutions and theoretical frameworks—such as functionalism and conflict theory—mediate behaviors of deviance among students, particularly in the presence of structural inequalities related to socio-economic status, race, gender, and cultural background. The investigation of educational interventions thus looks to clarify under what conditions education reduces deviance or conversely perpetuates it.

Key finding: This quantitative study of 240 Pakistani university respondents establishes that education significantly predicts reductions in deviant behavior but that this effect is moderated by structural inequalities such as... Read more
Key finding: Through qualitative analysis of teacher narratives in Swedish upper-secondary schools, this research shows that successful inclusion of newly arrived immigrant students—often facing structural inequalities—depends heavily on... Read more

3. What roles do technology and media play in shaping contemporary deviant behaviors and social control?

The rise of digital technologies and social media platforms has transformed both the manifestation of deviant behaviors—such as cyberbullying, cyberstalking, deviant linguistic practices—and mechanisms of social control. This theme investigates how technology mediates deviance by enabling new forms, facilitating awareness and mobilization, but also enhancing surveillance and social regulation. It also considers how deviant linguistic practices on social media mark identities and group membership, reflecting evolving social norms in digital contexts.

Key finding: This theoretical essay conceptualizes deviance and social control in the digital era, arguing that technology both empowers deviant actors—by amplifying awareness and collective mobilization—and augments institutional control... Read more
Key finding: Through qualitative analysis of Instagram and Twitter data, this study identifies distinctive forms of deviant spelling—including letter substitutions, abbreviations, and symbolic replacements—that serve communicative and... Read more
Key finding: Based on analysis of approximately 300 U.S. court cases, this article delineates the characteristics of cyberstalking as a form of deviant behavior facilitated by technological tools. It details how cyberstalking perpetration... Read more

All papers in Deviant Behaviour and Social problems

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