Investigating Deviance : An Anthology

by Jacobs, Bruce A.; Glassner, Barry

• ISBN13: 9780195330038
• ISBN10: 019533003X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The highly readable articles in this comprehensive anthology explore the essence of deviant behavior--its construction, explanation, commission, and control. Substantive introductions to each section and to each article allow the book's component parts to stand on their own depending on instructional needs. Topic-specific Internet websites are also provided. Bruce Jacobs has selected an eclectic cross-section of compelling readings. The book's theoretical coverage draws from classic as well as contemporary approaches (e.g., lifecourse, general strain, institutional anomie, feminist), with an emphasis on the latter. The empirical selections on forms of deviant behavior are engaging, ethnographic, and timely. Coverage includes: * Child Prostitution * Robbery of Drug Dealers * Impersonal Homosexual Sex * Internet Pornography * Petty Shoplifting * Eating Disorders * Life on Death Row * Racial Profiling * Ritalin and the Drugging of Children * Sex Tourism * Athletes with Physical Disabilities * Violence Beyond the Law * Cyberspace Crime * Use of Cameras, Drug Tests, and DNA Analysis to Monitor Deviants Additional Features: * The section on deviant identity management emphasizes the acquisition and management of stigma. * The researching deviance section features the process by which scholars conduct deviance research (both ethnographic and survey)--as well as how they identify and infiltrate settings, negotiate dilemmas and contradictions, and secure valid data. * The section on deviance and social control covers profiling, life sentences, judicial discretion, and surveillance. * Gender is incorporated throughout the book as a crucial mediating variable. Feminist perspectives are included, as well as approaches that focus on masculinity and deviance.

Table of Contents

Constructing Deviance

Outsiders

Fear, the Media, and the Construction of Deviance

On the Sociology of Deviance

Defining Deviancy Down

Explaining Deviance

Deviance and Low Self-Control

Deviance, Anomie, and the American Dream

Deviance and Oppositional Culture: The Code of the Streets

The Theory of Differential Association

General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency

Crime and Deviance in the Lifecourse

Techniques of Neutralization

A Radical Conception of Crime and Deviance

Gender, Crime, and Deviance

Deviance, Labeling, and Reintegrative Shaming

Researching Deviance

Studying Sex: An American Survey

Researching Crack Dealers

Gender and Research with the Police

Drugs

The Social Construction of Drugs and Drug Use

Marijuana and Lifestyle: Exploring Tolerable Deviance

I Take Care of My Kids: Mothering Practices of Substance-Abusing Women

The Ethic of "Responsible Drinking"

Ritalin Ascendant

American Women and Smoking: 22 Million Just Don''t Get It

Violence

Next Time She''ll Be Dead: What is Domestic Violence?

Gang Violence

Hate Crimes: The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed

Robbing Drug Dealers: Violence Beyond the Law

The Spectrum of Child Abuse

Sexual Deviance

The Social Organization of Prostitution

Erotic Cyberspace: The Internet and "Logging On" to Sex

Men Who Have Sex with Other Men

Turn-Ons for Money: Interactional Strategies of the Table Dancer

Sex Tourism and Child Prostitution in Asia

Fraternities and Rape on Campus

White Collar Deviance

Crime in Cyberspace

Corporate Deviance

Organized Deviance

Accounts of Professional Misdeeds: The Sexual Exploitation of Clients by Psychotherapists

Doctor-assisted Suicide

Mental Illness

Nowhere to go: Homelessness and Mental Illness

The Compulsion to Amputate One''s Own Limbs: Apotemnophilia and Mental Disorder

Women''s Madness: Misogyny or Mental Illness?

Managing "Crazy" Friends and Relatives: Accommodation Practices and Vernacular Treatments of Madness

The Suicidal Mind: Why Do We Kill Ourselves?

On Being Sane in Insane Places

Stigma and Identity Management

Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia: The Development of Deviant Identities

Becoming a Shoplifter: The Seductions of Deviance

Stigma Management Through Participation in Sport and Physical Activity: Experiences of Male College Students with Physical Disabilities

Women Athletes as Falsely Accused Deviants: Managing the Lesbian Stigma

Gay and Greek: The Identity Paradox of Gay Fraternities

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