Deviant Behavior: Crime, Conflict, and Interest Groups

by McCaghy, Charles H.; Capron, Timothy A.; Jamieson, Jay

• ISBN13: 9780205296163
• ISBN10: 0205296165
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Deviant Behavior combines a balanced, comprehensive overview of the field of deviance with first-hand expertise in the workings of the criminal justice system. Using the framework of interest group conflict, the text surveys a wide range of topics, from violent crime and organizational deviance to sexual behavior, mental health, and substance abuse.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
PART I	1	(112)
Perspectives on Deviants	3	(46)
Who Is Deviant?	4	(3)
The Rational Deviant---The Classical School	7	(2)
The Deviant as Determined---Positivist Criminology	9	(4)
Physical Characteristics of Deviants---Early Approaches	13	(6)
Phrenology---The Beginning of the Scientific Study of the Deviant	14	(2)
The Positivist School	16	(3)
Heredity and Mental Deficiencies	19	(6)
A Short Note on Eugenics	21	(2)
Twin Studies	23	(2)
The Bell Curve	25	(1)
Physical Characteristics Revisited	25	(7)
Biological Inferiority	25	(2)
Somatology	27	(1)
XYY Chromosome Syndrome	28	(1)
Brain Malfunction	29	(3)
Personality Defects and Attributes	32	(8)
Psychopathy	33	(1)
Traits and Thinking	34	(4)
Unconscious Motivation	38	(2)
Sociobiology---Trailblazing or Backtracking?	40	(9)
Perspectives on Deviance	49	(35)
Economic Influences	50	(5)
Karl Marx	51	(1)
Willem Bonger	52	(2)
The Smoky Pilgrims	54	(1)
Anomie	55	(10)
Durkheim's Anomie	57	(1)
Merton's Anomie	57	(8)
Subcultures of Deviance	65	(7)
Social Disorganization and Learning	67	(2)
Differential Association Theory	69	(3)
Control Theory	72	(12)
Classical Theory Revisited	75	(2)
Women and Deviance Theories	77	(1)
Integration of Theories	78	(6)
Why Is Certain Behavior Deviant?	84	(29)
The Labeling Perspective	85	(8)
The Production of Deviance	85	(5)
The Effect of Labeling on Behavior	90	(3)
Conflict Perspectives	93	(11)
Culture Conflict	94	(1)
Group Conflict	95	(2)
Conflict and Authority	97	(2)
Radical Theory	99	(5)
Once Again: What Is Deviant?	104	(3)
Interest Group Conflict and Deviance	107	(6)
PART II	113	(164)
Crime in the Streets---Against the Person	115	(39)
Measuring Crime	116	(2)
Murder and Aggravated Assault	118	(17)
Dimensions of Homicide	119	(5)
Violence: An American Value	124	(4)
The Subculture of Interpersonal Violence	128	(2)
The Conflict over Guns	130	(5)
Forcible Rape	135	(9)
Dimensions of Rape	136	(5)
Violence and Sex	141	(3)
Violent Sex and Conflict	144	(10)
Crime in the Streets---Against Property	154	(28)
Robbery	154	(5)
Dimensions of Robbery	154	(3)
Types of Robbers	157	(2)
Burglary	159	(4)
Dimensions of Burglary	160	(1)
The World of Burglary	161	(2)
Motor Vehicle Theft	163	(3)
Dimensions of Motor Vehicle Theft	163	(1)
Joyriders, Professionals, and Others	164	(2)
Larceny-Theft	166	(5)
The Extent of Shoplifting	166	(1)
Types of Shoplifters	167	(2)
Reactions to Shoplifting	169	(2)
Arson	171	(2)
Types of Arsonists	172	(1)
Larceny in the American Heart	173	(9)
The Rip-off Philosophy	175	(7)
Assaults Against Children and Spouses	182	(43)
Physical Abuse of Children	183	(13)
Problems of Definition	184	(3)
The Discovery and Medicalization of Physical Abuse	187	(3)
Extent	190	(2)
Characteristics	192	(1)
Stress, Power, and Culture	193	(3)
Spouse Abuse	196	(11)
The Discovery of Spouse Abuse	197	(2)
Extent	199	(2)
Characteristics	201	(2)
Stress and Power---Again	203	(4)
Sexual Abuse of Children	207	(18)
Extent	208	(1)
Characteristics	209	(1)
Types of Molesters and Their Offenses	210	(4)
Adult--Child Sex: A Matter of Liberation?	214	(11)
Deviance and Organizations	225	(52)
Employee Theft	228	(7)
Pilferage	229	(2)
Embezzlement	231	(3)
Organizations as Victims	234	(1)
Police Corruption	235	(8)
Meat- and Grass-Eaters	236	(3)
Rotten Apples or Rotten Barrels?	239	(4)
Corporate Deviance	243	(13)
Price-Fixing: A Fact of American Industry?	245	(2)
``Would You Buy a Used Car from This Man?''	247	(3)
``You Are What You Eat''	250	(3)
The Badness of Good Business	253	(3)
Organized Crime	256	(21)
Characteristics and Structure	257	(5)
From Muscle to Respectability	262	(1)
Ethnic Succession	263	(1)
Sources of Profit	264	(13)
PART III	277	(154)
Deviant Drug Use	279	(56)
Drug Use as Deviance	280	(6)
Some Terminology	281	(5)
Alcohol	286	(17)
Alcohol as a Drug	286	(2)
Alcohol Use and Deviance	288	(3)
Alcoholism, Disease, and Problem Drinking	291	(5)
Correlates of Problem Drinking	296	(4)
Alcohol and Conflict	300	(3)
Heroin	303	(12)
Heroin as a Drug	305	(2)
Heroin Use and Deviance	307	(5)
Heroin and Conflict	312	(3)
Marijuana	315	(6)
Marijuana as a Drug	316	(2)
Marijuana Use and Deviance	318	(1)
Marijuana and Conflict	319	(2)
Cocaine	321	(2)
Cocaine as a Drug	321	(1)
Cocaine Use and Deviance	322	(1)
Cocaine and Conflict	322	(1)
Drug Control: The Great American Flop	323	(12)
Mental Disorders	335	(31)
What Is Mental Disorder?	336	(4)
Correlates of Mental Disorder	340	(5)
Social Class	340	(2)
Genetics	342	(1)
Family Setting	342	(1)
Stress	343	(2)
Disease or Label?	345	(10)
Mental Disease as a Myth	346	(1)
A Labeling Theory of Mental Disorder	347	(5)
Requiem for Labeling Theory?	352	(3)
Conflict and the Therapeutic State	355	(11)
Sex Psychopath Laws: The Grand Failure	356	(2)
The Problem of Involuntary Commitment	358	(8)
Cyberdeviance	366	(21)
Jeffrey Arbaugh
The Computer Underground	366	(16)
A Typology of the Computer Underground	367	(2)
The Relevant Actors of the Computer Underground	369	(5)
Subcultures of Deviance in the Computer Underground	374	(7)
Is the Computer Underground a Subculture?	381	(1)
Implications for Future Research	381	(1)
Implications for the Criminal Justice System	381	(1)
Sexual Deviance and Cyberspace	382	(5)
Opportunity for Sexual Deviance in Cyberspace	382	(1)
An Interview with White Eagle	383	(4)
Sexual Deviance: Prostitution and Homosexuality	387	(44)
Prostitution	388	(20)
The Context of Prostitution	391	(5)
Becoming a Prostitute	396	(5)
The Pimp	401	(2)
Prostitution and Conflict	403	(5)
Homosexuality	408	(23)
Homosexuality as Deviance	409	(4)
Homosexuality: Condition or Behavior?	413	(2)
Becoming ``Homosexual''	415	(7)
Homosexuality and Conflict	422	(9)
Name Index	431	(8)
Subject Index	439