Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper will explore how the criminalized status of prostitution in the United States constitutes prostitutes as engaging in both deviant sexuality activity and deviant commercial activity, and argue that, paradoxically, both of these aspects of prostitution are necessary for such construction -- absent payment, prostitution would simply be casual sex, and absent sexual contact, it would be protected expressive activity akin to other legal forms of sex work. The paper will then examine the reasons why the law treats prostitution differently than casual sex and adult entertainment, and discuss the consequences of criminalization for prostitutes and their customers.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: It has long been recognized that cities invariably have a number of “outlaw” or “gray” areas where formal policing and regulatory reach is constrained. Sometimes these areas are seen as “ghettos” and the lawlessness blamed on the cultural or racial traits of the residents. At other times they are seen as “marginalized”, although they may be in the city center. In this paper I will present a third alternative by focusing on a community in the center of Mexico City called Tepito where predominant activities range from “soft” illegalities such as street vending without a permit to “harder” illegalities such as selling pirated and smuggled goods, to the “hardest” illegalities such as drug distribution. Our argument is that, while these activities are carried out by different individuals in different networks, they are united in their opposition to a “formal/official” regime that would prefer to get rid of all of them. This opposition, born out of the historical marginality of the community, has created a communal mythology that incorporates an acknowledgement of the community as deviant. Thus, the community in fact has developed a “culture of resistance” to the dominant political-social system, thus creating a “protected space” for deviant activities.

Publication Type: Poster
Abstract: This study analyzed sexual preferences profiles in a sample of 466 sexual offenders who obtained a valid profile at the time of their initial phallometric assessment. The erotic stimuli used in the process were audiotapes describing sexual offending scenarios. Two types of erotic stimuli have been used : one type adapted for rapists (aggression, violence, humiliation) and a second type matched for child molesters (submission, coercion, violence). Penile responses were recorded during stimuli presentation using a mercury-in-rubber strain gauge. Classification analysis have been done separately for three groups of sexual offenders : 1) child molesters (n=263), 2) rapists (n=174) and 3) mixed sexual offenders (n=29). Our results shows four profiles of sexual preferences among child molesters, two profiles among rapists and one profile for the group of mixed sexual offenders. Our results also established that the generated profiles for child molesters and rapists were stable within their subsamples.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper discusses conditions favoring the use of force by young Russian-Germans from the former Soviet Union after their migration to Germany. The authors focus on the question of what kind of influences these young people‘s understanding of honor and the functions of the police has on their attitude toward force and their use of it. In addition to a presentation of the state of the art on prevalence as well as the motives of the use of force, they refer to their own empirical study of young Russian-Germans in the cities of Duisburg and Frankfurt/M., Germany. Under the conditions of great language deficits as well as bad educational and occupational opportunities, the concept of honor based upon a traditional ideal of masculinity turns out to be an effective means of social control which guides the actions of these young people to a considerable extent.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: While scholars of entrepreneurship acknowledge deviance as a concomitant of entrepreneurial action, there is reluctance to systematically and comprehensively establish the critical nexus between the entrepreneur and deviant behavior. We contend that the issue of deviance is central to an analytic and practical understanding of entrepreneurial behavior. Entrepreneurial deviance while functional for societal development also spawns dysfunctional consequences. Further, failure to grapple with the centrality of this issue limits effective understanding of the entrepreneurial role and functioning in society. Merton’s theory of deviant adaptation is rethematized and applied and the endogenous and exogenous factors which induce entrepreneurial deviance are pinpointed.