Social Deviance: Readings in Theory and Research

by Pontell, Henry N.

• ISBN13: 9780130407740
• ISBN10: 0130407747
• Edition: 4TH
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

For undergraduate courses in Deviance, Social Deviance, and Deviance and Society. This collection of classic and contemporary readings in social deviance provides a balanced overview of theories, concepts and research. It can serve as either a stand-alone reader or a supplement to a major text.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
PART I INTRODUCTION	1	(32)
Moral Entrepreneurs: The Creation and Enforcement of Deviant Categories	2	(5)
Howard S. Becker
Ironies of Social Control: Authorities as Contributors to Deviance Through Escalation, Nonenforcement, and Covert Facilitation	7	(13)
Gary T. Marx
The ``Discovery'' of Child Abuse	20	(13)
Stephen J. Pfohl
PART II THEORIES	33	(192)
Functionalism and Anomie	34	(1)
The Normal and the Pathological	34	(3)
Emile Durkheim
Social Structure and Anomie	37	(8)
Robert K. Merton
Illegitimate Means and Delinquent Subcultures	45	(6)
Richard A. Cloward
Lloyd E. Ohlin
Symbolic Interactionism/Labeling	50	(1)
The Social Self	51	(2)
Charles Horton Cooley
Primary and Secondary Deviation	53	(4)
Edwin M. Lemert
Stigma and Social Identity	57	(19)
Erving Goffman
Whiteness as Stigma: Essentialist Identity Work by Mixed-Race Women	76	(19)
Debbie Storrs
Deviance on Record: Techniques for Labeling Child Abusers in Official Documents	95	(11)
Leslie Margolin
On Behalf of Labeling Theory	106	(12)
Erich Goode
Conflict Theory	117	(1)
Toward a Marxian Theory of Deviance	118	(5)
Steven Spitzer
Radical Criminology: An Explication	123	(14)
Robert M. Bohm
The Poverty of the Sociology of Deviance: Nuts, Sluts, and Preverts	137	(15)
Alexander Liazos
Learning	151	(1)
Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency	152	(4)
Gresham M. Sykes
David Matza
Becoming a Marihuana User	156	(8)
Howard S. Becker
Differential Association	164	(2)
Edwin H. Sutherland
Differential Identification	166	(4)
Daniel Glaser
Feminism	169	(1)
Girls' Crime and Woman's Place: Toward a Feminist Model of Female Delinquency	170	(15)
Meda Chesney-Lind
In the Night Market: Tourism, Sex, and Commerce in Contemporary Thailand	185	(8)
Ryan Bishop
Lillian S. Robinson
On the Backs of Working Prostitutes: Feminist Theory and Prostitution Policy	193	(10)
Annette Jolin
Appearance and Delinquency: A Research Note	203	(7)
Jill Leslie Rosenbaum
Meda Chesney-Lind
Identity, Strategy, and Feminist Politics: Clemency for Battered Women Who Kill	210	(15)
Patricia Gagne
PART III DEVIANT BEHAVIORS	225
Alcohol and Drug Use	225
Moral Passage: The Symbolic Process in Public Designations of Deviance	226
Joseph R. Gusfield
Marihuana Use and Social Control	236
Howard S. Becker
Deviance as a Situated Phenomenon: Variations in the Social Interpretation of Marijuana and Alcohol Use	245
James D. Orcutt
Gender, Power, and Alternative Living Arrangements in the Inner-City Crack Culture	253
Lisa Maher
Eloise Dunlap
Bruce D. Johnson
Ansley Hamid
Sexual Deviance	268
The Madam as Teacher: The Training of House Prostitutes	269
Barbara Sherman Heyl
Tearoom Trade	278
Laud Humphreys
Convicted Rapists' Vocabulary of Motive: Excuses and Justifications	286
Diana Scully
Joseph Marolla
Topless Dancers: Managing Stigma in a Deviant Occupation	299
William E. Thompson
Jackie L. Harred
Defining, Excusing, and Justifying Deviance: Teen Mothers' Accounts for Statutory Rape	310
Joanna Gregson Higginson
Common Crime and Social Control	325
The Function of Humor for Prison Inmates	326
Charles M. Terry
Incarceration as a Deviant Form of Social Control	337
Henry N. Pontell
Wayne N. Welsh
The Behavior of the Systematic Check Forger	342
Edwin M. Lemert
Normal Crimes: Sociological Features of the Penal Code in a Public Defender Office	349
David Sudnow
White-Collar and Corporate Crime	368
Is ``White Collar Crime'' Crime?	369
Edwin H. Sutherland
Medical Criminals: Physician Fraud in Medicaid	381
Paul Jesilow
Henry N. Pontell
Gilbert Geis
White-Collar Crime in the Savings and Loan Scandal	405
Henry N. Pontell
Kitty Calavita
Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in a White-Collar Crime	415
Michael L. Benson
Accounts of Professional Misdeeds: The Sexual Exploitation of Clients by Psychotherapists	422
Mark R. Pogrebin
Eric D. Poole
Amos Martinez
Computer Crime: Hackers, Phreaks, and Cyberpunks	433
Stephen M. Rosoff
Henry N. Pontell
Robert Tillman
On Being Sane in Insane Places	450
D. L. Rosenhan
The Moral Career of the Mental Patient	463
Erving Goffman
From Witchcraft to Drugcraft: Biochemistry as Mythology	476
Ronny E. Turner
Charles Edgley