Social Deviance : Readings in Theory and Research

by Pontell, Henry N.

• ISBN13: 9780131444195
• ISBN10: 0131444190
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

This collection of classic and contemporary readings in social deviance provides a balanced overview of theories, concepts and research related to the topic.The book examines specific deviant behaviors, as well as the research issues in studying them and the application theories to specific behavior through the use of various research methodologies.For those interested in sociology and the field of criminal justice.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Note to the Reader	xi
Part I INTRODUCTION	1	(32)
Moral Entrepreneurs: The Creation and Enforcement of Deviant Categories by Howard S. Becker	2	(5)
Ironies of Social Control: Authorities as Contributors to Deviance Through Escalation, Nonenforcement, and Covert Facilitation by Gary T. Marx	7	(13)
The "Discovery" of Child Abuse by Stephen J. Pfohl	20	(13)
Part II THEORIES	33	(194)
Functionalism, Anomie, and Strain	33	(38)
The Normal and the Pathological by Emile Durkheim	34	(3)
Social Structure and Anomie by Robert K. Merton	37	(8)
Illegitimate Means and Delinquent Subcultures by Richard A. Cloward and Lloyd E. Ohlin	45	(4)
A General Strain Theory of Community Differences in Crime Rates by Robert Agnew	49	(22)
Symbolic Interactionism/Labeling	71	(36)
The Social Self by Charles Horton Cooley	72	(2)
Primary and Secondary Deviation by Edwin M. Lemert	74	(3)
Stigma and Social Identity by Erving Goffman	77	(19)
On Behalf of Labeling Theory by Erich Goode	96	(11)
Conflict Theory	107	(20)
Toward a Marxian Theory of Deviance by Steven Spitzer	108	(4)
The Poverty of the Sociology of Deviance: Nuts, Sluts, and Preverts by Alexander Liazos	112	(15)
Learning	127	(18)
Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency by Gresham M. Sykes and David Matza	128	(4)
Becoming a Marihuana User by Howard S. Becker	132	(7)
Differential Association by Edwin H. Sutherland	139	(3)
Differential Identification by Daniel Glaser	142	(3)
Self-Control Theory	145	(35)
Low Self-Control and Crime by Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi	146	(22)
On the Absence or Self-Control as the Basis for a General Theory of Crime: A Critique by Gilbert Geis	168	(12)
Feminism	180	(47)
Girls' Crime and Woman's Place: Toward a Feminist Model of Female Delinquency by Meda Chesney-Lind	181	(15)
On the Backs of Working Prostitutes: Feminist Theory and Prostitution Policy by Annette Jolin	196	(9)
Appearance and Delinquency: A Research Note by Jill Leslie Rosenbaum and Meda Chesney-Lind	205	(7)
Identity, Strategy, and Feminist Politics: Clemency for Battered Women Who Kill by Patricia Gagné	212	(15)
Part III DEVIANT BEHAVIORS	227
Alcohol and Drug Use	227	(28)
Moral Passage: The Symbolic Process in Public Designations of Deviance by Joseph R. Gusfield	228	(10)
Marihuana Use and Social Control by Howard S. Becker	238	(9)
Deviance as a Situated Phenomenon: Variations in the Social Interpretation of Marijuana and Alcohol Use by James D. Orcutt	247	(8)
Sexual Deviance	255	(81)
The Madam as Teacher: The Training of House Prostitutes by Barbara Sherman Heyl	256	(9)
Tearoom Trade by Laud Humphreys	265	(8)
Convicted Rapists' Vocabulary of Motive: Excuses and Justifications by Diana Scully and Joseph Marolla	273	(13)
Topless Dancers: Managing Stigma in a Deviant Occupation by William E. Thompson and Jackie L. Harred	286	(10)
From Sex as Sin to Sex as Work: COYOTE and the Reorganization of Prostitution as a Social Concern by Valerie Jenness	296	(15)
Bodies, Borders, and Sex Tourism in a Globalized World: A Tale of Two Cities-Amsterdam and Havana by Nancy A. Wonders and Raymond Michalowski	311	(25)
Common Crime and Social Control	336	(43)
The Function of Humor for Prison Inmates by Charles M. Terry	337	(11)
Incarceration as a Deviant Form of Social Control by Henry N. Pontell and Wayne N. Welsh	348	(4)
The Behavior of the Systematic Check Forger by Edwin M. Lemert	352	(8)
Normal Crimes: Sociological Features of the Penal Code in a Public Defender Office by David Sudnow	360	(19)
White-Collar and Corporate Crime	379	(68)
Is "White Collar Crime" Crime? by Edwin H. Sutherland	380	(11)
Medical Criminals: Physician Fraud in Medicaid by Paul Jesilow, Henry N. Pontell, and Gilbert Geis	391	(24)
White-Collar Crime in the Savings and Loan Scandal by Henry N. Pontell and Kitty Calavita	415	(10)
Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in a White-Collar Crime by Michael L. Benson	425	(7)
Computer Crime: Hackers, Phreaks, and Cyberpunks by Stephen M. Rosoff, Henry N. Pontell, and Robert Tillman	432	(15)
Mental Disorder	447
On Being Sane in Insane Places by D.L. Rosenhan	448	(12)
The Moral Career of the Mental Patient by Erving Goffman	460	(13)
From Witchcraft to Drugcraft: Biochemistry as Mythology by Ronny E. Turner and Charles Edgley	473