A person would be considered to be acting deviantly in society if they are violating what the significant social norm in that particular culture is. What causes humans to act certain ways is a disputed topic among researchers for some time now. There are three types of research that have tried to an...

Teenage and young-adult violence is a growing epidemic. With the spreading violence epidemic comes widespread depression. We are now seeing more and more depression in younger and younger people. We tend to classify angry, violent, and aggressive adolescents as troubled individuals. We try to...

Child abuse consists of any act or failure to act that endangers a child\'s physical or emotional health and development. A person caring for a child is abusive if he or she fails to nurture the child, physically injures the child, or relates sexually to the child. There are four major types of chil...

On the night of January 23rd, 1978, a 21 year-old woman was found murdered. The killer, in no way connected to the victim, had torn all clothes from the woman's body and had ripped open her lower abdomen. A huge knife wound gaped from breast to navel , some inner organs had been cut out. Several ...