This chapter evaluates the allure and the danger of attributing race-laden crime politics to displaced anxiety. Stuart Scheingold’s ‘‘myth of crime and punishment’’ was a path-setting theory of redirected fear, arguing that socioeconomic ‘‘fear of falling’’ is displaced onto street crime, where the simple morality tale of lawbreaker-versus-state offers the illusion of control. The danger of thi...

Crime or deviance as a danger light shows the defects or deficiencies of society and usually has different causes and factors. This paper tries to answer this main question: What is deviant behavior? Which causes and factors generate student’s deviant behaviors? The main purpose of this study is to determine the effective social factors on female students' deviant behaviors. Hirsch’s social...

The March 22 issue of Science carried three articles [1–3] that claim to challenge a key principle of immunology, called self–non-self discrimination, by examining neonatal tolerance. These papers demonstrate that newborn mice can make immune responses if the antigen is appropriately presented. Is this a refutation of self–non-self discrimination as the authors believe? And does it prove the ‘d...