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Usage for deviance


"Massey engaged in a 'normalization of deviance' ... in the push to produce coal," the McAteer team concludes, borrowing a phrase from Diane Vaughan, author of The Challenger Launch Decision. "It is only in the context of a culture bent on production ...

"The increased frequency of abuse in the 1960s and 1970s is consistent with patterns of increased deviance in society at that time," said Karen Terry, the study's lead author and the dean of research and strategic partnerships at the John Jay College ...

Dr. Douglas Tucker said Lamb has been caught lying and secretly disposing of his trash, behaviors that parallel sexual deviance and do not bode well when considering his likelihood to reoffend. He said Lamb's treatment was delayed in 2009 by the ...

Tightness- looseness ( the overall strength of social norms and tolerance of deviance) was measured on a six- item scale that assessed the degree to which social norms are pervasive, clearly defined, and reliably imposed within nations. ...

Taken together, these studies represent the most probing, thorough examination of the incidence, character and potential causes of sexual deviance in an organisation ever conducted. Moreover, given that only scant data exists for other organisations, ...


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