NEGATIVE SOCIAL DEVIATIONS: ECONOMIC-GEOGRAPHICAL APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF PROBLEM
https://doi.org/10.7868/S0373244417050036
Abstract
Social deviance (negative and positive) is a very important cross-national distinctive characteristic of social space that reflects features of social, economic, political and cultural development of countries and regions of the world. Among human geographical disciplines the author proposes to allocate geography of social deviance (geodeviantology) as scientific area that studies specifics of regional expansion and territorial structure of deviance as well as their relationship with socioeconomic conditions. Special attention is paid to the most developed subdiscipline with a scientific point of view – geography of crime (geocriminology). A case study of negative deviance in terms of socioeconomic geography is the geography of felonious homicides. Areas of the highest (Caribbean, South American, and East African) and lowest (West European, North American, North African, East Asian, and Pacific) levels of homicide are identified. The analysis of statistical correlation of the distribution of homicides and the level of economic development of countries is conducted. The conclusion is made about the nonlinear nature of impact of the factor of economic welfare of countries on distribution features of heavy types of violent crime.
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Demidova E.E. NEGATIVE SOCIAL DEVIATIONS: ECONOMIC-GEOGRAPHICAL APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF PROBLEM. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2017;(5):31-41. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.7868/S0373244417050036
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