Deviance Is Perceived By Society

“Deviance is in the eye of the beholder,” I say in the “eye of the beholder” because everyone has their own form of deviance. I have always been a deviant child in my household, I never did what I was told and I always went against my parents back to do things. I was the child of the household who started going to parties with my friends and getting drunk at the age of 14. I mostly acted out of spite towards my family and did anything that I wanted to do because I didn’t want my family to control me. Deviance is a problem in most teenagers in the United States and in this paper, I am going to be discussing how teen deviance is perceived by society, how society can cause this deviance, and what can be done to help teen deviance.
Teen deviance is shown through drug use, sex, alcohol, even bullying. Teens often follow what their peers do because they want to fit in with their friends. Teens are still finding out who they are in high school and sometimes in college, so they tend to follow along in the activities that their peers do to fit in. “A deviant teen may be acting poorly because his peer group evaluates bad behavior as “cool” or “normal” and rewards it while punishing good behavior” (Hughes, 2010). Teenagers will start to do drugs if their friend group is using drugs, or maybe the teen may be depressed and want to end their life by overdosing. Peer Pressure …show more content…
If we can all just stop expecting so much of people in this society and just let everyone live their lives the way they want to, the world will be a better place. There are a lot of ways that society can help defiant teenagers without automatically just expecting them to go to Juvenile detention centers. Everybody has rough patches in life and everybody makes mistakes. Society needs to find better ways to help these defiant teens, it can be as easy as just listening to the teen and their