Question 1

Adler and Adler point out that some deviants organize and commit their acts as loners. All of the following examples are mentioned EXCEPT

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Question 2

Adler-Adler found that people become involved in self-injury for the following reasons:

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Adler-Adler identified depression, alienation, and rebellion as common reasons for self-injury, focusing on psychological and social factors.

Question 3

Self-injury as described by Adler-Adler provided its participants with

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Self-injury, as described by Adler-Adler, provided participants with a form of comfort that helped them cope during stressful times.

Question 4

Self-injury as described by Adler-Adler in their study was typically

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Adler-Adler's study on self-injury found it to be a personal and private act. Individuals who engage in self-injury often do so in solitude, as it requires a level of focus and intimacy with oneself that is not meant to be shared with others. This behavior is not performed for an audience or with the intention of public display, making it a deeply personal form of deviance.

Question 5

When coping with the practical problems connected with their deviance, self-injurers

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Self-injurers often lack the social support of a deviant subculture. When others find out about their behavior, the typical reaction is to try to stop them rather than to provide aid or support for continuing the behavior.

Question 6

Adler-Adler conclude that self-injurers have

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Adler-Adler conclude that self-injurers have the least organized form of deviant association, lacking social support and a subculture, and often feel lonely, making it difficult to sustain the deviant behavior over time.

Question 7

Describe and explain the social organization of deviance represented by self-injurers as described by Adler-Adler, including: ideology, social isolation and support, practical problems, normative socialization, and possible strain.

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Question 8

What seem to be factors that explain why the self-injurers studied by Adler-Adler remain only marginally involved in committing their deviance over a long period of time? Do you think the internet has changed this for self-injurers since the study was conducted as it has other loner types of deviance such as pedophiles? Why or why not? Explain.

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Question 9

Discuss why the Adlers categorize self-injurers as loners. What sets loners apart from most 	other forms of social-communal deviance? Give two additional examples of loner deviance.

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Quiz 33: Cyber Communities of Self-Injury