deviancy

A former criminology professor who specialized in social deviancy and “went on an arson spree” was sentenced on Thursday to more than five years in prison after he admitted to setting four fires in California in 2021, prosecutors said.

MP Amir al-Maamouri told Shafaq News on Saturday that the new law was "a significant step in combating sexual deviancy given the infiltration of unique cases contradicting Islamic and societal values".

The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously warned against “defining deviancy down.”

Over the past several years, the regularity of this kind of behavior has resulted in what Pat Moynihan called "defining deviancy down."

In the 1990s, the scholar and former New York Sen. Patrick Moynihan coined the phrase “defining deviancy down” to describe how societies tend to accept once-intolerable behavior, thus lowering the standards for what is deemed proper conduct going forward.