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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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Giving the boy a two-year community order with counselling, Judge Patrick Curran QC said: "His first sexual experience was an abusive one and that is so often the reason for deviant behaviour later.
Boy subjected his step-sister to sexual abuse by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
President Zuma will be more vocal in terms of what we see as deviant behaviour," Gwede Mantashe told reporters.
SAfrica's Zuma heads for Zimbabwe to sooth tensions by AFP / AFP Global Edition
Along with the figures for the country as a whole, those statistics serve to expose a disturbing epidemic of deviant behaviour.
The Journal: Challenge set by shameful statistics by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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