Understanding deviance : a guide to the sociology of crime and rule-breaking
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Understanding deviance : a guide to the sociology of crime and rule-breaking
Clarendon Press, 1988
2nd ed
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Bibliography: p. [335]-360
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This revised and updated edition of "Understanding Deviance" is designed as a guide to steer the new student through the major themes of the theories which have formed the sociology of crime, delinquency, social deviance and social control. The authors have examined the significant frameworks of the discipline, offering criticisms and constructing defences, aiming to enable the reader to prepare for the more detailed arguments which may be found elsewhere. It is also intended as a guide to the principal theories of crime and social deviance in the European and North American context and contains a new chapter on feminist criminology.
Table of Contents
- Confusion and diversity
- sources of knowledge about deviance
- the University of Chicago Sociology department
- functionalism, deviance and control
- anomie
- culture and subculture
- symbolic interactionism
- phenomenology
- control theories
- radical criminology
- feminist criminology
- deviance theories and social policy.
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