Deviant Behavior

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Nine years later there was an incident of bicycles being stolen at the community center where I would go after school. Individuals who knew any information about the stolen bikes were asked to talk to the police. As it turned out, I came forward to tell the community center director, and the police officer who stole the bikes. Coming forward was an act of beneficence, “beneficence includes doing good [sic] for society” (Cory, Cory, Cory, & Callanan, 2015, p. 18). Even though it was the ethically correct, I would soon learn a valuable lesson as a teenager. Several days later as I come out of the grocery store, and the two individuals who stole the bicycles beat me up for telling the police they stole the bikes. Coming forward to tell the truth