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Does Amanda Bynes: Influence Or Deviant Behavior?
I have chosen Amanda Bynes as the recently arrested celebrity on suspicion of driving under the influence of a controlled substance outside of LA. According to People.com, she ran a red light at an intersection only to make a complete stop in the middle of the same intersection. She was charged with a misdemeanor, held on $15,000 bail and released later on Sunday. The actress was first arrested for DUI in 2012, but she avoided jail time by completing inpatient treatment in December. She was placed on three years' probation. (Corriston, 2014)
In this situation, I suppose the victims were herself and the other people she scared and put in danger because of her reckless actions.
If we take into account her actions from the point of view of symbolic interactionism then we might realize that her deviant behavior was created through the social interactions she experienced with various individuals who probably taught her these deviant activities and lived themselves as deviants. According to Little, (2014), 'Deviance is something that, in essence, is
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Also, imagine the impression she gave those police officers at 3 a.m. on a Sunday if they arrested her on suspicion of driving under the influence. Clearly she didn't look like a responsible citizen at the time in regards to her previous actions. Also, if we take a look at her social status as a former actress, we might understand that she had the means, the motives and the supporting peers of the same social standing that made it easier for her to behave eccentrically and abnormally. That being said, we should also consider the fact that she was driving under the influence of a drug that was prescribed to her by a doctor, and there are claims that she might be bipolar and schizophrenic - that

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