deviancy
1deviancy — deviance UK [ˈdiːvɪəns] / US [ˈdɪvɪəns] or deviancy UK [ˈdiːvɪənsɪ] / US [ˈdɪvɪənsɪ] noun [uncountable] formal behaviour that most people do not consider normal or morally correct sexual deviance …
2deviancy — deviant ► ADJECTIVE ▪ diverging from normal standards, especially in social or sexual behaviour. ► NOUN ▪ a deviant person. DERIVATIVES deviance noun deviancy noun …
3Deviancy amplification spiral — (also simply called deviance amplification) is a media hype phenomenon defined by media critics as a cycle of increasing numbers of reports on a category of antisocial behavior or some other undesirable event, leading to a moral panic. The term… …
4deviancy — noun (plural cies) Date: 1947 deviance …
5deviancy — See deviance. * * * …
6deviancy — noun /ˈdiː.viːnsiː/ the state of being deviant, abnormal or anomalous …
7deviancy — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition of being abnormal: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, anomaly, deviance, deviation, irregularity, preternaturalness, unnaturalness. See GOOD, USUAL …
8deviancy — de·vi·an·cy …
9deviancy — ənsē noun ( es) Etymology: deviant + cy : the character or behavior of a deviant …
10National Deviancy Symposium — The National Deviancy Symposium (or National Deviancy Conference) consisted of a group of British Criminologists dissatisfied with Orthodox British Criminology, many of them later involved with Critical criminology and/or Left realism. According… …
