Deviant Behavior: Why Are They Growing Day To Day?

Deviant behaviour basically refers to behaviour that does not fit in within societies norms. After birth, children start to experience circumstances with others. They are educated on what he or she should and should not do, what is good or bad and what is part of society's "norms". Learning habits or things that comply with the "norm" of the surroundings into which the children are born into and developed as they grow specific values and morals which concludes them to be part of the norm. These qualities give the children reason to refrain from other behaviour that society and or their surroundings disagree with. Nowadays an ever increasing number of young people are turning to crime. These crimes are being committed by young offenders of …show more content…
A young offender is a one who is not tried in an adult court due to age.Throughout this essay I should further more explain why these young offenders turn out the way the do and why they do the things they do.Why are young offenders such a huge topic and why are they growing day to day. Young offender are our youth and as the grow and are being charged with felonies. The reason this is a topic worth investigating is due to the fact we need to understand why the youth are doing this and figure out solutions on how to stop and prevent our youth growing up with being offenders. As children are growing up and shown a standard life of living which fits within the norm they slowly start to accept that norm, it is believed that youth who are not given these opportunities and are not provided with what we be considered a normal lifestyle begin to refrain themselves from this lifestyle and seek acceptance and a place where their lifestyle and meaning of life can be accept as a norm as well. In other words find their own way of a so called norm. Deviance has a few theories that further explain why youth have become like this. Two major theories would be the labelling theory by Howard Becker and differential association theory by edwin sutherland. Both these theories will be further explain in how they help relate young offenders to be …show more content…
Differential association theory was introduced by Edwin Sutherland. Edwin Sutherland was born on August 13,1883. Through differential theory Edwin Sutherland basically explained that people become deviant when being around other deviant people. The people around you are what influence you according to Sutherland, the way you seek acceptance and want to fit in. In the movie “City of me” Two lifelong friends raised in the slums of Rio de Janeiro attempt to navigate the treacherous maze of adulthood after celebrating their 18th birthdays and becoming caught up in the city's endless cycle of violence. The main characters Laranjinha (Darlan Cunha) and Acerola (Douglas Silva) are not related by blood, but these friends are closer to one another than most brothers. While their friendship has gone a long way in helping them both to cope with the strife that surrounds them, the hard truth is that they will both have to fend for themselves now that they've entered into adulthood. For Laranjinha, entering this stage in life means finding his long-lost father; for Acerola it means finally taking responsibility for his growing family. Now, as Laranjinha's cousin, quick-tempered local drug lord, finds his power threatened by his former right-hand man it quickly becomes apparent that a formidable war is brewing in the poverty-stricken