The Project: High Council is a 10-episode series that was aired on Astro from January to March 2023. This series revolves around an elite boys’ boarding school named Kolej Ungku Deramat (KUDRAT) in the year 2007. However, this institute had a ‘dark side’ where the students were regulated by a student organization named ‘high council’. As such, this drama showcases the unpleasant atmosphere due to the organization that acts as a social control. Fights between the Form Four and Form Five batch, bullying, breaking the school rules, violence that lead to injuries and near fatal experiences are some of the highlights. These deviant activities flourished over the years without any students reporting the incidents to the school management. The question here is why are students not willing to bring this matter to the teachers’ attention? Are they supporting these deviant actions? Hence, the researchers analyzed this issue by adopting the five techniques of neutralization. Moreover,.....

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