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1. A Battle of Deviance: Session 1 Program Transcript [MUSIC PLAYING]
A Battle of Deviance: Session 1 Program Transcript [MUSIC PLAYING] [INTERPOSING
VOICES] DR. CHANDLER: OK, let’s get started. Let’s go around the room and introduce
ourselves. I’m Dr. Chandler. JEFFREY: I’m Jeffrey. MICHAEL: Hi, I’m Michael. JOHN: I’m John.
ALAN: And I’m Alan. DR. CHANDLER: Good, welcome everybody. What I’d like to do today is
have each of you talk a bit about your stories. What brings you here, the reason you were
ordered to attend this group session? Jeffrey, why don’t you go first? JEFFREY: Really? DR.
CHANDLER: Go on, give it a try. You’re 18, the youngest here. Tell the others why you were
arrested. JEFFREY: I didn’t do anything wrong. DR. CHANDLER: Yes, Michael, you have a
question? MICHAEL: Yes, for Jeffery. But you were arrested and convicted, what for?
JEFFREY: It was all lies. In court, all that evidence, they said I touched my half sister and my
half cousin. What the hell do they know? They’re just kids, only six and seven. Kids make
stuff up. They should have been whipped for lying like that, beat good. I didn’t do nothing to
them. MICHAEL: You’re angry. JEFFREY: You’re damn right and mind your own business.
DR. CHANDLER: OK, Jeffrey settle down. Your aggression has gotten you into other trouble,
hasn’t it? Tell us about that. JEFFREY: Yeah, I got kicked out of my high school, because I
was always getting into fights. Now, they put me in some special school, you know, for bad
kids. That’s me, I guess, but I won every one of them fights and they had it coming. DR.
CHANDLER: Why do you say that? JEFFREY: You know why. You read my file. DR.
CHANDLER: Tell the group. JEFFREY: More lies, kids we’re talking about things they heard
happened at my home. I had to shut them up. DR. CHANDLER: What were they saying?
JEFFREY: My mom– my mom, she told people I was exposing myself at home. She told me to
stop and I went and started doing it outside the apartment, masturbating. I mean, that’s
what she said. Like I would do that. DR. CHANDLER: There must have been other reports of
you exposing yourself and masturbating, not just at home. What about that? JEFFREY: What
about it? Like it’s any of your business. DR. CHANDLER: Who lives at home with you Jeffrey?
JEFFREY: My mom, my stepfather, half brother, half sister. DR. CHANDLER: What about your
dad? Do you have any contact with him? JEFFREY: I want to, but no. My mom, she won’t let
me. DR. CHANDLER: Michael, what about you? Tell us what brought you here. MICHAEL:
What brings me here, the best intentions I’m afraid. I wanted to help a young man who was
having a hard time and certain allegations were made against me that were completely false
and they proved to be quite damaging. My reputation has been smeared. DR. CHANDLER:
And this young man, he was actually a 13-year-old boy, right? MICHAEL: Yes, I met him
through an organization I volunteer for. I was assigned to him as his mentor. He’s a fine
3. the block from me and we– we started hanging out together and this one day we were in the
park and I don’t know. One of the boys and I, we just started making out right there on the
bench, like we were kids, and then I got arrested. I told the cops all about it. DR. CHANDLER:
All about what Select one of the four offenders in the group to focus your Discussion.Select
one of the following theories that may help to explain the offender’s behavior:Biological
theoriesEvolutionary theoriesPersonality theoriesCognitive theoriesBehavior
theoriesSocial Learning theoriesFinkelhor’s Precondition ModelMarshall and Barbaree’s
integrated theoryHall and Hirshman’s Quadripartite ModelWard and Siegart’s Pathways
ModelMalamuth’s Confluence Model