deviancy

deviancy
de·vi·an·cy

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  • deviancy — deviance UK [ˈdiːvɪəns] / US [ˈdɪvɪəns] or deviancy UK [ˈdiːvɪənsɪ] / US [ˈdɪvɪənsɪ] noun [uncountable] formal behaviour that most people do not consider normal or morally correct sexual deviance …   English dictionary

  • deviancy — deviant ► ADJECTIVE ▪ diverging from normal standards, especially in social or sexual behaviour. ► NOUN ▪ a deviant person. DERIVATIVES deviance noun deviancy noun …   English terms dictionary

  • Deviancy amplification spiral — (also simply called deviance amplification) is a media hype phenomenon defined by media critics as a cycle of increasing numbers of reports on a category of antisocial behavior or some other undesirable event, leading to a moral panic. The term… …   Wikipedia

  • deviancy — noun (plural cies) Date: 1947 deviance …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • deviancy — See deviance. * * * …   Universalium

  • deviancy — noun /ˈdiː.viːnsiː/ the state of being deviant, abnormal or anomalous …   Wiktionary

  • deviancy — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition of being abnormal: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, anomaly, deviance, deviation, irregularity, preternaturalness, unnaturalness. See GOOD, USUAL …   English dictionary for students

  • deviancy — ənsē noun ( es) Etymology: deviant + cy : the character or behavior of a deviant …   Useful english dictionary

  • National Deviancy Symposium — The National Deviancy Symposium (or National Deviancy Conference) consisted of a group of British Criminologists dissatisfied with Orthodox British Criminology, many of them later involved with Critical criminology and/or Left realism. According… …   Wikipedia

  • Social role valorization — In psychology and social work practice, Social Role Valorization (SRV) is the name given to an analysis of human relationships and human services, formulated in 1983 by Wolf Wolfensberger, PhD, as the successor to his earlier formulation of the… …   Wikipedia

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