Sentence examples for deviant acts from inspiring English sources

While "deviant" acts were a convenient tool of denunciation in the Hitler Youth, where homosexuality was cited for 25percentt of those expelled, there was also a fear that such behavior was learned and could spread through the corps.

He told the court that he had used the papers to harass people he thought were engaged in deviant acts -- unmarried couples in public together or women not properly covered.

Variety scales in turn, measure the range or number of different deviant acts that have been committed in a certain period of time, so in these scales each item is assumed to represent a different type of infraction.

Those who had already been convicted reported having been engaged in a higher number of deviant acts during last year (M = 6.43; SD = 4.53) than those who had never been convicted (M = 3.47; SD = 3.01).

In some theories this is a singular factor such as the "general deviance syndrome" which purports that certain people have a relatively set propensity to commit deviant acts, of which both crime and drugs are common examples (Osgood, Johnston, O'Malley, & Bachman, 1988).

The results of the Welch's t test also revealed a significant difference regarding school failure (t (725,32) = 11.431, p < 0.001), with those who had been retained at school at least once reporting having engaged in a higher number of deviant acts (M = 4.92; SD = 3.72) than those who had never been retained (M = 2.54; SD = 2.24).

But homosexuality is considered a deviant act".

I mean, one's got to get up in the morning thinking of a deviant act, merely to make certain of one's freedom.

What looked like a deviant act by an escape-seeking individual was simply a communal practice shaped by a common enterprise: it takes a strip club to smoke a reefer.

Frequency scales measure the number of times that each deviant act has been committed in a certain period of time.

Nonetheless, feminist theorists critique the law's construction of abortion as a deviant act that requires regulation by medical experts (Boyle 1997; Sheldon 1997).