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Edith Cowan University

Edith Cowan University. THE NEW NORMAL? ANARCHY, ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND AGENCY. Dr. Anne Aly, ECU. The Bell Curve of Normality. The Bell Curve of Normality. GENETICIST “We’ve identified an anti- social gene”. PSYCHOLOGIST “It’s a personality disorder”. SOCIOLOGIST

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Edith Cowan University

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  1. Edith Cowan University

  2. THE NEW NORMAL?ANARCHY, ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND AGENCY Dr. Anne Aly, ECU

  3. The Bell Curve of Normality

  4. The Bell Curve of Normality

  5. GENETICIST “We’ve identified an anti- social gene”

  6. PSYCHOLOGIST “It’s a personality disorder”

  7. SOCIOLOGIST “It’s a function of socio-cultural and group norms”

  8. NUTRITIONIST “It’s a nutritional imbalance”

  9. MARKETER “It’s related to lifestyle and media consumption”

  10. ACTIVIST “It’s a function of social control and repression.”

  11. SILENT MAJORITY? “It’s ‘their’ culture. ‘They’ are inherently violent/ lazy/ weak/ different from us.”

  12. 3 LEVELS OF ANALYSIS • Individual • Group • Social

  13. 2 APPROACHES • Behaviour itself • Who/what defines the behaviour- Sate Power and normality

  14. Labelling people who break the law as 'deviant', 'evil', 'anti-social' and different to ordinary law-abiding citizens is part of the social control functions of the criminal justice system. In the same way, activists are often labelled or associated with the terms 'criminal' or 'terrorist' . The labelling of certain activists as violent' or terrorist' is a part of efforts to discredit and undermine support for social change and is often used to justify legal repression and police violence. www.activistrights.org

  15. HEROISM

  16. ROMANTICISM

  17. POP CULTURE

  18. MASS APPEAL

  19. BROKEN WINDOW

  20. BROKEN WINDOWS

  21. Community Fear Community Concern Indirect Victimisation Community Victimisation Perspective

  22. FIXING BROKEN WINDOWS

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