Deviance

by Rubington, Earl; Weinberg, Martin S.; Rubington, Earl; Weinberg, Martin S.

• ISBN13: 9780024044129
• ISBN10: 0024044121
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

The purpose of this book has been to present students with recent and important work in the sociology of deviance. We have, however, limited ourselves to one particular approach to this study. We call this approach the interactionist perspective. We see this book as having two major uses. As a statement on the interactionist perspective on deviance and a collection of readings employing that approach, the book can be used in deviance courses that are taught from the interactionist point of view. The second use is that of adjunct to deviance courses that are organized around other points of view. Most of the papers presented in this book does nothing more than familiarize readers with these works, it will have served its purpose.

Table of Contents

Preface
General Introduction	p. 1
The Process of Social Typing	p. 9
Outsiders	p. 10
Societal Reaction to Deviant Behavior	p. 13
Notes on the Sociology of Deviance	p. 22
Accommodation to Deviance	p. 26
The Psychological Meaning of Mental Illness in the Family	p. 27
Accommodation to Madness	p. 36
The Adjustment of the Family to the Crisis of Alcoholism	p. 48
The Cultural Context	p. 62
Labeling the Mentally Retarded	p. 63
The Medicalization of Deviance in American Culture	p. 69
The Social Constitution of Drug Scares	p. 77
The Role of Third Parties	p. 87
Stranger Intervention into Child Punishment in Public Places	p. 88
Paranoia and the Dynamics of Exclusion	p. 105
The Moral Career of the Mental Patient	p. 111
Help Agencies and Their Theories	p. 124
The Making of Blind Men	p. 125
Emergency Department Responses to Battered Women	p. 129
Techniques for Labeling Child Abusers in Official Documents	p. 141
Police Work	p. 153
Case Routinization in Investigative Police Work	p. 154
Normal Force	p. 165
Narcotics Enforcement in a Canadian City	p. 176
The Deviant in Court	p. 186
Normal Crimes	p. 187
Sexual Assault	p. 196
Probation Officer-Defendant Negotiations	p. 209
The Effects of Contact With Control Agents	p. 221
Being Sane in Insane Places	p. 222
The Saints and the Roughnecks	p. 229
Legal Stigma	p. 239
The Rise and Nature of Deviant Subcultures	p. 248
Theory of Deviant Subcultures	p. 249
The Nature of Deviant Subcultures	p. 251
'Mixed Nutters,' 'Looney Tuners,' and 'Daffy Ducks'	p. 254
Getting Into Deviant Subcultures	p. 267
Becoming a Nudist	p. 268
Getting into Gangs	p. 279
Conversion to the Doomsday Cult	p. 293
Learning the Culture	p. 299
The Training of House Prostitutes	p. 300
The Nudist Management of Respectability	p. 308
The Facts of Life About LSD	p. 316
Subcultural Variations	p. 323
A Typology of Heroin Addicts	p. 324
Outsiders in a Hearing World	p. 335
Prostitution and Crack-House Sex	p. 345
Acquiring a Deviant Identity	p. 356
Becoming Bisexual	p. 357
Getting a Tattoo	p. 364
Identity and the Shoplifter	p. 377
Managing Deviant Identity	p. 381
Stutterers' Practices	p. 382
Rapists' Vocabulary of Motives	p. 394
The Social Integration of Queers and Peers	p. 407
Divorce and Stigma	p. 417
Transforming Deviant Identity	p. 432
Delabeling, Relabeling, and Alcoholics Anonymous	p. 433
The Professional Ex-: An Alternative for Exiting the Deviant Career	p. 439
The Later Stages of Property Offender Careers	p. 448
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