Social Deviance: Readings in Theory and Research

by Pontell, Henry; Rosoff, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780073404417
• ISBN10: 0073404411
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-19
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

In its first edition with McGraw-Hill, this comprehensive source of classic and contemporary readings will help students learnwhobecomes deviant,whypeople become deviant, andhowindividual and institutional reactions help define the social reality of deviants (the persons) and deviance (the behavior). The selected readings provide experiences for students by providing a solid foundation in the field and a means by which to examine contemporary issues.

Table of Contents

Preface

Understanding Deviance and Conformity: An Introduction

Moral Entrepreneurs: The Creation and Enforcement of Deviant Categories

Ironies of Social Control: Authorities as Contributors to Deviance Through Escalation, Nonenforcement, and Covert Facilitation

The "Discovery" of Child Abuse

Defining Deviance Down by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Trivializing the Lunatic Crime Rate: Theory, Praxis, and the Global Economic Meltdown

Theories

Functionalism, Anomie, and Strain

The Normal and the Pathological

Social Structure and Anomie

Illegitimate Means and Delinquent Subcultures

General Strain Theory

Latinos and Lethal Violence: The Impact of Poverty and Inequality

Broken Windows

Labeling/Symbolic Interaction

The Social Self

Primary and Secondary Deviation

Stigma and Social Identity

On Behalf of Labeling Theory

Conflict

The Conflict of Conduct Norms

Toward a Marxian Theory of Deviance

The Poverty of the Sociology of Deviance: Nuts, Sluts, and Preverts

A Sociological Analysis of the Law of Vagrancy

Governmental and State Crime

Street Crime, Labor Surplus, and Criminal Punishment, 1980-1990

Learning

Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency

Becoming a Marihuana User

Differential Association

Differential Identification

On the Evolving Synthesis of Differential Association and Anomie Theory

Self-Control Theory

Low Self-Control and Crime

On the Absence of Self-Control as the Basis for a General Theory of Crime

Feminism

Girls' Crime and Woman's Place: Toward a Feminist Model of Female Delinquency

On the Backs of Working Prostitutes: Feminist Theory and Prostitution Policy

Appearance and Delinquency: A Research Note

Identity, Strategy, and Feminist Politics: Clemency for Battered Women Who Kill

Deviant Behaviors

Alcohol and Drug Use

Moral Passage: The Symbolic Process in Public Designations of Deviance

Marihuana Use and Social Control

Deviance as a Situated Phenomenon: Variations in the Social Interpretation of Marijuana and Alcohol Use

Sexual Deviance

Tearoom Trade

Convicted Rapists' Vocabulary of Motive: Excuses and Justifications

Learning to Strip: The Socialization Experiences of Exotic Dancers

From Sex as Sin to Sex as Work

Bodies, Borders and Sex Tourism in a Globalized World

Common Crime and Social Control

Incarceration as a Deviant Form of Social Control

The Behavior of the Systematic Check Forger

Normal Crimes: Sociological Features of the Penal Code in a Public Defender Office

Computer Crime: Hackers, Phreaks, and Cyberpunks

Organized Crime

From Mafia to Cosa Nostra

Individual Choice, Material Culture, and Organized Crime

White-Collar and Corporate Crime

Is "White Collar Crime" Crime?

Medical Criminals: Physician Fraud in Medicaid

White-Collar Crime in the Savings and Loan Scandal

Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in a White-Collar Crime

Mental Disorder

On Being Sane in Insane Places

The Moral Career of the Mental Patient

From Witchcraft to Drugcraft: Biochemistry as Mythology

Paranoia and the Dynamics of Exclusion

Physical Attributes

Marks of Mischief: Becoming and Being Tattooed

Fragile Facades: Stuttering and the Strategic Manipulation of Awareness

Legitimating the First Tattoo: Moral Passage Through Informal Interactions

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