Word: deviant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientists studying antisocial or abnormal human behavior have no such protection, and are wide open to arrest for participating in illegal activities or concealing information about them. The result, many of them claim, is that little meaningful research is being done in the field of what sociologists call "deviant behavior...
...plain enough that anyone seeking to discredit a political initiative based on as sensitive a subject as family structure, particularly that of Negroes, will have no difficulty devising arguments. For generations, Negroes have labored under the attribution of genetic inferiority; to raise the question of a "deviant subculture" is to invite the charge of raising the same old canard of innate differences in a more respectable guise. The subject of family introduces the subject of sex, in this instance Negro sex, an issue of intense and not always acknowledged sensitivity for all parties. The subject of broken families raises...
...evaluation programs that accompanied the demonstration projects funded by the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, established in 1961. As few programs in the history of American government, this one set out consciously and openly to test a set of hypotheses about the nature of deviant behavior in slum neighborhoods. It was a physiocrat's dream and attracted great attention in the press and in university circles...
...Lawrence. If he tarries longer, the visitor is impressed by the million-volume library, the small classes, the spectacular wildlife diorama that Kansas inherited from the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, the extension courses for prisoners at Leavenworth Penitentiary (favorite subjects: abnormal psychology and sociology of deviant behavior), the big medical school (in nearby Kansas City, Kans...
...book or film need not have a "prurient appeal" to the public at large to be declared obscene. It can be so judged even if it panders merely to a "clearly defined deviant sexual group," such as homosexuals or masochists...