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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"deviant behaviour"”.
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Youth experience of deviant behaviour as portrayed in some television programmes: A Case Study of the Youth of Madonsi Village, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… this study was to explore how the portrayal of deviant behaviour in selected television programmes influences the youth to adopt similar behaviour in their lives. In the past, television programmes for young people were meant to nourish the soul and enable the voice of the youth to be heard. …
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Drivers of flow and commitment among service workers : an empirical exploration of Goffman’s institutions in the UK Branded Restaurant Industry
… flow, commitment, motivation, spirituality, and deviant behaviour are combined to create a theoretical underpinning for an empirical analysis of staff working in the field. The research focuses on the drivers of flow and commitment of staff. The study successfully applies Goffman’s theory of …
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The effects of cognitive distortions in sex offenders and non-sex offenders with mild learning disabilities
… role in the etiology and maintenance of sexually deviant behaviour. This assumption has driven research to focus on investigating the cognitive content of distorted cognitions held by sexual offenders. Indeed, to facilitate researchers in this quest, attention has focused on trying to develop …
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Bullying in the workplace: a case study of the University of Cape Town
… Town. These themes include the normalisation of deviant behaviour in workplaces, the impact of guardians failing employees in their protective role in organisations, the impact of life-changing events on both the individual and the organisation, and finally, how dysfunctional organisational …
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‘Support and Sanctions’ A critical account of the professional ‘realities’ of homelessness
… granted assumptions about the pathological and deviant behaviour of homeless people not only informed policy, but also had a significant impact on practice which, in turn, served to maintain and reinforce the exclusion of people in acute housing need. This research also extends the current …
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The honest thief: a qualitative study exploring the ethics of clandestine intelligence collection in a statutory environment
… as they all offer useful explanations of how deviant behaviour is understood and justified by individuals. A combination of factors played into how they made ethical decisions and how they justified (or did not) these decisions. Findings suggested a combination of institutional frameworks …
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The dagga problem : a sociological perspective with special reference to the question of social policy
… the original works of some of the theorists on deviant behaviour, the reports of government committees of inquiry, as well as commentary on drug abuse in various academic and professional journals and in more popular publications. Special mention must be made of the use of newspaper reports as …
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Preventing Crime in Communities: A Critical Analysis of Community Safety in a Lower Income Neighbourhood in Nairobi, Kenya
… informal social control mechanisms to regulate deviant behaviour of both the police and the public (Reiner, 2010). This has the potential to improve the perceived legitimacy of formal social control methods.<br/><br/>It is hoped this research will contribute to the literature and gaps in …
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Political Discourses of Idealised Masculinity: The Risk Management of Male Prisoners through Work, Education and Family Transitions
… is to reconstruct male prisoner’s attitudes and behaviour from that of deviant to non-deviant behaviour, from anti-social to pro-social values and through their moral and responsible reconstruction towards active, self-governing subjects. Thus the importance of maintaining family ties and the …
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Assortative mating among men and women with histories of aggressive, withdrawn, and aggressive-withdrawn behaviour
… the continuity of aggressive and withdrawn behaviour among men and women who had been identified as showing elevated levels of these behaviours in childhood. The second aim was to investigate the occurrence of above chance levels of similarity between these individuals and their spouses on …
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Crime and normlessness : an attempt to isolate conditions of anomie
… to an established theoll"y of crime and deviant behaviour - the theory of anomie. It begins by discussing some fundamental problems in the study of crime and pmceeds to argue that the sociological interpretation is one of the most comprehensive and useflll approaches in modem criminology. …
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Fragile moralities and dangerous sexualities : a case study of 'deviant' women and semi-penal institutionalisation on Merseyside, 1823-1994.
… as a significant site of social control for 'deviant' women, placed somewhere between the formal control of the prison and the informal regulation of the domestic sphere. Second, it deconstructs the dominant, hegemonic discourses around domesticity, respectability, motherhood, sexuality and …
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Outcome 21: an examination of practice and policy as a response to adolescent nude image sharing
… rather than a deliberate intent to engage in deviant behaviour. However, the current legal and safeguarding responses, including Outcome 21, fail to address these complexities adequately. Instead, these measures often stigmatise adolescents by labelling them as suspects, exacerbating …
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The Lived experience of the popular music festival-goer.
… relation to others. Finally, whilst hedonistic behaviour led to a sense of heightened excitement and euphoria, it also engendered shock and concern over the extent of some deviant behaviour.
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An analysis of insider dysfunctional behavours in an accounting information system environment
Insider deviant behaviour in Accounting Information Systems (AIS) has long been recognised as a threat to organisational AIS assets. The literature abounds with a plethora of perspectives in attempts to better understand the phenomenon, however, practitioners and researchers have traditionally …
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The anatomy of a working-class neighbourhood: West Sparkbrook 1871-1914
… beliefs as to what constituted acceptable or "deviant" behaviour. These and other questions are pursued by an examination of the years from 1871 to 1914 in the Birmingham neighbourhood of West Sparkbrook. The chronology has been set to make possible the use of census material and oral evidence, …
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La vida alegre : Intimacy and Respect in the World of Prostitution in Managua
… meanings. This is not an investigation into deviant behaviour, although the actors are situated in a social world that is characterised as liminal. It is, rather, an ethnography of the particular aimed at dispelling stereotypical images portrayed of sex workers and clients. It attempts to …
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Factors influencing employee turnover and retention strategies in the non-profit sector in Cape Town
… lead to voluntary turnover, low performance, and deviant behaviour. NPOs experience that a goaldirected and people-orientated culture implemented by transformational leaders and organisational cohesive practices that make it clear what is expected of employees are the most effective ways of …
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Justifications for the Implementation of Shadow IT Solutions by Functional Departments in an Organisation
… by a social actor to indicate that their deviant behaviour is actually reasonable. Understanding justifications for SIT is essential for IT managers since they can understand them as justification and not confuse them with other phenomena and at the same time they can devise appropriate …
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