deviance

How To Use deviance In A Sentence

• As a psychologist, Bloom had studied what in the 1970s was considered not just sexual deviance, but mental imbalance.
• Significantly, they have been hugely overlooked as a source of knowledge about criminality within histories of criminology and theories of crime and deviance.
• If power interests are threatened, then new models of conformity may merely provoke new forms of deviance.
• What role do state institutions play in shaping identities and constructing beliefs about deviance that privilege some groups and pathologize others?
• Examples have been widely attested of learners who exhibit correct performance on certain forms, and then lapse into deviance later on.
• Normal is the average of deviance. Rita Mae Brown 
• Russell Williams is now an admitted double murderer, rapist and sexual fetishist, but it's the scale of his obsession, the depth of his deviance and his utter relentlessness which is so terrifying. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
• Shortly afterward, government censors began a campaign, ostensibly against Internet pornography and other forms of deviance.
• The country hardly needs lectures about the social roots of crime and deviance.
• But this business seemed to be defacing its own windows, in a reflexive act of social deviance.