A new study I completed at the Columbia University J-school says there is a strong relationship between the “social deviance” of the event or topic in a headline and the number of retweets it gets on ...

Deviance is one of the best ways to understand what's going on in the world. From the underbelly of the world of hidden lives, such as our recent work on self-injury, The Tender Cut, to the new ...

We’ve all seen it: A deviant behavior is repeated, without catastrophic results, and eventually becomes the accepted social norm for the organization. This process is called the “normalization of ...

ABSTRACT: Control balance theory, couched as an integrated explanation of deviance, has been tested thus far using exclusively a “scenario” method that assessed respondents' perceived probability of ...

Deviance Amplification Theory explores how society’s reaction to crime can unintentionally increase criminal behavior. This ...

This paper estimates a model of the relationship between self-rejection and deviance, mediated by disposition to deviance, to examine the linear structural equations in data provided by a threewave ...

Nearly a decade ago I wrote a blog on the Aurora shooting. Thousands of people have since been victims of gun-related violence—often, young adults and children have been both perpetrators and victims.

The fire service is built on a foundation of camaraderie, courage, and a shared mission to protect and serve. Yet, like any profession, it is vulnerable to the pressures of everyday operations, human ...