Word: deviants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...larger truth is that though presidential appointees and the career bureaucrats over whom they preside can do or undo a great deal, the decisive factor is will at the top. A President who is engaged can sustain loyalists and thwart the deviant. When the attention of the White House wanders, entropy sets...
Unfortunately, many couples affected by aggression refuse to seek help, often because they don't view their behavior as deviant. But, say experts, the cycle of violence should be taken seriously. "We need to look at the origins of marital abuse," says Therapist Koval. "The roots of marriage are not in the ceremony and the honeymoon but in the dating period." The best remedy of all may be for couples to take literally a favorite slogan of 1960s peace marchers: MAKE LOVE...
...This "culture of poverty" thesis achieved widespread acceptance in a country which has long believed that poverty begins at home, and became the cornerstone of the Black neoconservative critique of the welfare system. Theorists such as Kennedy School Professor Glenn Loury and Thomas Sowell denounced welfare for reinforcing the deviant behavior patterns of the inner-city poor, which is largely Black...
...Wilson is making a fine, but important, correction to the culture of poverty thesis which also sees the ghettos as preserves of deviant behavior. For Wilson, the prevalence of single-parent households is not the result of a change in attitudes towards the traditional family, but rather the effect of economic forces which make it hard for men to support families. In his recent Godkin lecture at Harvard, Wilson noted that the latest survey research shows that the truly disadvantaged actually share mainstream attitudes towards work, family and crime...
...most part support the group -- the Geese have faced threats of violence and sullen silence. But the challenge in the rehearsal room at the Massachusetts Treatment Center in Bridgewater is daringly new: to use the tools of theater to break through to the feelings of the sexual deviant. The twelve inmates in the cast, like the 243 other occupants of the maximum-security facility, are serving indeterminate terms for crimes ranging from rape to child molestation...