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deviant behavior

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deviant behavior,
actions that exceed the usual limits of accepted behavior and involve failure to comply with the social norm of the group.


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Community youth development recognizes that unsupervised leisure may expose children to negative environments, resulting in greater risk for deviant behavior, and that other avenues are needed within the community to reach out to the child to provide them with an external support system (Perkins et al.
Even though it now seems little more than a symbolic gesture, it will still supposedly force schools to ``promote'' homosexuality and other sexually deviant behavior.
Johnston, "Routine Activities and Individual Deviant Behavior," American Sociological Review 61 (1996): 635-655.
 
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