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That fragmented system without oversight had its problems: deviance (not all doctors provided good care) and cost (the doctors drove up the bills).
In a 1954 book titled Seduction of the Innocent , a psychologist named Fred Wertham attacked the sadistic violence and sexual deviance portrayed in comic books.
Estimates for the nonLDS population of Utah were derived by subtracting the number of LDS Church members from the Utah population provided by the US Bureau of the Census [ 14 ] . Poisson regression was used to estimate the incidence rate ratio between LDS and nonLDS [ 15 ] . Appropriate models reported below were selected based on the deviance goodness-of-fit test.
deviance something in the eye of the beholder.
So, we decriminalized virtually all minor offenses, we refused to confront young persons meaningfully for minor offenses--in New York City even burglary was for all practical purposes decriminalized (police didn't even bother investigating it)--and to use Moynihan's phrase, we "defined deviance down."