Essays about: "deviancy"

Found 5 essays containing the word deviancy.

1. 1. Captivating Communication : The Swedish Prison and Probation Service’s Storytelling and Creation of Legitimacy

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kriminologiska institutionen

   Author : Ella Wendt Höjer; [2024]
   Keywords : prison; cultural criminology; Nordic exceptionalism; legitimacy; Kriminalvården;

   Abstract : The stories about prison are infinite, and ultimately affect our understanding of incarceration. Punishment and prison are also political, and the shape of the penal system is fundamentally different in different countries. READ MORE

3. 2. Self-Perceived Deviancy, children’s Negotiation of Body and Sexuality in Contemporary Counselling

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Thania Persson; [2022]
   Keywords : Kamratposten; Children’s sexual development; Body; Sexuality in media; Gender; Deviance; Cultural Criminology; Social anthropology; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In this thesis I investigate children’s negotiation of deviancy and normality in relations to body and sexuality through analysing children’s magazine Kamratposten (KP, Pal Paper). Also, how children’s letters to the editor are being responded to by the magazine’s engaged counsellors of the section Kropp & Knopp (Body & Bud). READ MORE

4. 3. MEDIATING SERIAL VIOLENCE : NORMATIVITY, DEVIANCE & FRAMING IN THE MCARTHUR MURDERS

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/JMK

   Author : Max Maccarone; [2021]
   Keywords : normativity; deviancy; framing; mediatized violent phenomena; queer phenomenology;

   Abstract : How do the media react in the face of a violent phenomenon involving actors both embraced and marginalized by society? One such phenomena – the McArthur murders – encapsulates this dynamic considering how the media explained the murders to their audiences. McArthur, a white LGBTQ+ man, murdered over a seven-year period specifically targeting male victims of South Asian or Middle Eastern descent associated with the LGBTQ+ community and geographic area in Toronto, Canada. READ MORE

5. 4. Fearing the Queer and the War on “Indecency” : Portrayals of LGBT Individuals, and the Struggle for Religious Decorum in Aceh, Indonesia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Jeanna Nilsson; [2018]
   Keywords : Acehnese discourse; LGBT; qanun jinayat; Shafi’i Islam; gender; liwath; musahaqah; kodrat; Islam; Aceh; Indonesia; Asian studies; South-East Asia; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In 2014, the sharia-ruled Aceh province of Indonesia legislated bylaw qanun jinayat no.6/2014, which criminalised same-sex acts, and imposed a caning punishment consisting of a hundred lashes if a person was found guilty. READ MORE

6. 5. Understanding Childhood- Everyday Life and Welfare System, from the point of view of Childcare Workers in Finland.

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Barn; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

   Author : Som Chaulagai; [2015]
   Keywords : childhood; child perspective; agency; children’s voice; building trust;

   Abstract : This study carried out in one children’s home in Finland. This study aims to understand how the caregivers collectively perceive their work to secure and construct the childhood of the children living in the children’s home. READ MORE