Harvey Glatm Theories Of Deviance

Harvey Glatman was born in The Bronx to a loving mother and father, and was raised in Colorado. He had a peculiar obsession which led to violent acts and then eventually murder. He was a deviant child and he had many of the characteristics of deviance. Harvey’s life fits many theories on deviance.
Harvey was an only child born into a two-parent household. Both parents cared and loved him. In the preparatory stage Harvey was described as a normal child, and his parents didn’t find anything wrong. His perverted behaviors started at the age of 4, during the play stage. His parents found him with a string tied around his penis, the loose end of which he had shut in a drawer, he was leaning backwards so that the string pulled his member taught. Mead says this stage is when the child pretends to be “mommy” or “daddy”. Since Harvey was
Then Harvey went on to game stage but instead of putting himself into the shoes of others and understanding other people he believed the world revolved around him. At the age of 12 his parents noticed that his neck was red and swollen neck. He described to then what he had done, being in the bathtub, placing a rope around his neck, running it through the tub drain, and pulling it tight against his neck, achieving sexual pleasure from this act. His mother took him to the family physician and was told he would grow out of this phase. But as time went on this obsession grew bigger and he wanted more. So, at the age of 17 he started to threaten women on the street with a gun he had stolen from a home. He would sometimes steal a woman’s purse and throw it back at her. It was so he could feel power over her, he had the power to give back to purse or keep it for himself. Then on May 18th, 1945 police caught him breaking into Elma Hammams apartment. He was charged with first degree robbery and his parents