Becoming Deviant
This term refers to actions or behavior that go against societal norms.
What is deviance?
This term describes a clinically significant disturbance in cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects dysfunction in mental functioning.
What is a mental disorder?
This type of crime involves the unlawful use of force against another person, with the intent to cause serious bodily harm
What is aggravated assault?
This type of terrorism involves individuals or groups inspired by U.S.-based movements with extremist political, religious, or social ideologies.
What is domestic terrorism?
This physician, known as "Dr. Death," aided over 100 patients in physician-assisted suicide.
Who is Dr. Kevorkian?
These categories of deviance include normative, reactivist, absolutist, and statistical.
What are the four types of deviance?
This popular psychiatric manual is used globally for diagnosing mental disorders and has undergone multiple revisions to refine its classifications.
What is the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)?
These crimes, including murder and rape, are described as inherently wrong by nature, regardless of laws prohibiting them.
What are "mala in se" crimes?
This framework, proposed by Emile Durkheim, connects the level of social integration in a society to deviant behaviors like terrorism and suicide.
What is social integration?
This cult leader named a utopian city after himself, which became the site of a tragic mass suicide.
Who is Jim Jones?
These are perceived or agreed-upon rules and guidelines that society follows, such as waiting in line, even though they are not required by law.
What are social norms?
This condition was portrayed in "The Joker" through uncontrollable laughter, although the movie controversially linked it to violence.
What is pseudobulbar affect?
This four-stage progression describes how individuals develop into dangerous violent offenders, starting with brutalization.
What is the development of dangerous violent offenders?
This type of terrorism aims to overthrow capitalism and establish a communist or socialist economic system.
What is left-wing terrorism?
This young man, known as the "King of Incels," killed six people before committing suicide after crashing his car to avoid arrest.
Who is Elliot Rodger?
This term describes a group within society whose ideas and values go against societal norms.
What is a deviant subculture?
This movement aimed to reduce the population of mental hospitals by shifting treatment to local outpatient clinics but faced criticism for increasing homelessness.
What is deinstitutionalization?
This term refers to a caregiver causing unnecessary medical procedures or harm to a child, often by fabricating symptoms
What is medical child abuse (MCA)?
The doctrine of this terrorist rationalization suggests that violence against innocent people is necessary because peaceful resolutions are deemed ineffective.
What is the doctrine of necessity?
This Austrian man kept his daughter captive in his basement for 25 years, fathering several children with her.
Who is Josef Fritzl?
These terms differentiate between behaviors required by a role and those prohibited by it.
What are role prescriptions and role proscriptions?
This infamous criminal, diagnosed with schizophrenia, committed murders and referred to his home as the "House of Horrors," where he performed animal sacrifices.
Who is Pazuzu Algarad?
In this infamous 2018 case, a man murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters, with the motive of starting a new life with his lover.
Who is Chris Watts?
This notorious domestic terrorist, also known as the Unabomber, targeted individuals promoting technology and published a manifesto critiquing industrial society.
Who is Ted Kaczynski?
These two leaders of the Heaven's Gate cult were referred to as Do and Ti by their followers.
Who are Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles?