Deviance across Cultures

by Heiner, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780195177107
• ISBN10: 019517710X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Praise For Deviance Across Cultures

Author Biography

About the Editor Robert Heiner is Professor of Sociology at Plymouth State University. He is author of Social Problems: An Introduction to Critical Constructionism, Second Edition (OUP, 2005), and editor of Social Problems and Social Solutions: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (1998) and Criminology: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (1995).

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Explaining Deviance	p. 1
The Normal and the Pathological	p. 3
On the Sociology of Deviance	p. 7
Social Structure and Anomie	p. 15
Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency	p. 26
A Control Theory of Delinquency	p. 32
Conceptions of Deviant Behavior: The Old and the New	p. 41
The Search for Scapegoat Deviants	p. 45
Moral Panics	p. 51
Moral Panics in History	p. 53
The Classic Moral Panic: Mods and Rockers	p. 60
The Devil Goes to Day Care: McMartin and the Making of a Moral Panic	p. 68
Penis Panics	p. 79
Sex and Sexuality	p. 87
The Cocho`n and the Hombre-Hombre in Nicaragua	p. 89
Women in Lesotho and the (Western) Construction of Homophobia	p. 94
Paraphilias Across Cultures	p. 106
Prostitution	p. 117
Prostitution and the Status of Women in South Korea	p. 119
Big Sister Is Watching You! Gender Interaction and the Unwritten Rules of the Amsterdam Red-Light District	p. 126
Drugs	p. 139
Rx Drugs 60 Minutes (Transcript)	p. 141
Healthy Nightclubs and Recreational Substance Use: From a Harm Minimization to a Healthy Settings Approach	p. 147
Why Ritalin Rules	p. 158
Pumped-Up Panic	p. 166
Corporate Deviance	p. 177
Regulation, White-Collar Crime and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International	p. 179
Corruption Scandals in America and Europe: Enron and EU Fraud in Comparative Perspective	p. 191
Deviance and Religion	p. 199
Nones on the Run: Evangelical Heathens in the Deep South	p. 201
Caught Up in the Cult Wars: Confessions of a Canadian Researcher	p. 216
Suicide Bombers: The "Just War" Debate, Islamic Style	p. 227
Mental Illness	p. 233
On Being Sane in Insane Places	p. 235
Schizophrenia in the Third World	p. 243
Epilogue: A Freedom-Deviance Trade-Off?	p. 255
Lessons in Order	p. 257
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