But what if that baby was only shaken once and the baby seemed normal? What if that "normal child- was now going to be a criminal for the rest of its life due to an undetected brain injury? ... When a criminal has suffered from a severe head injury, the cognitive deficits, as mentioned prior, may make the individual incapable of going through their day-to-day routines like those of any "normal- individual. ...
Firstly they see the deviant as different from the rest of the population, he or she is abnormal in a normal population and that the abnormality predisposes him or her to deviance. ... From a sociological point of view, the criminal is as normal as the rest of us. ... Durkheim in his discussion of crime in "The Rules of Sociological Method" argues that crime is an inevitable and normal aspect of social life, that it is present in all types of society but that crime rates are higher in advanced and more industrial societies. ...
"The inmate volunteers-after a promise of a pardon-were gradually weaned away from their normal diet and given a steady supply of cornbread, sweet potatoes, grits, and rice. ... "Doctors face the issues of informed consent in their daily routine practice of patient care. ...
From the late 1980s, research on gender, crime and social issues, has hugely focused on the study of masculinity, and how there has become a correlation between masculinity and violence. Feminists have researched extensively on all types associated with gender, including gay and lesbian, thus acting towards the literature on masculinity slowly increasing within the past 20 years due to the pressure from feminist works. In this essay, I will begin by reviewing theories on masculinity, and evaluating why such ideas create the assumption that violence appears to be associated with masculinity. I ...