The Handbook of Deviance

Editor: Goode, Erich
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Wiley

Single-User Purchase Price: $195.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $292.50
ISBN: 978-1-11-870142-3
Category: Social Sciences - Criminology & Law
Image Count: 8
Book Status: Available
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The Handbook of Deviance is a definitive reference for professionals, researchers, and students that provides a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the sociology of deviance.

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Table of Contents

  • Contributors
  • Introduction - Erich Goode
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I Deviance: The Conceptual Foundations
  • The Sociology of Deviance: An Introduction - Erich Goode
  • Deviance and Social Control - Mathieu Deflem
  • Regulating Vice - Jim Leitzel
  • Deviant Subcultures and Lifestyles - Craig J. Forsyth
  • Positive Deviance - Druann Maria Heckert and Daniel Alex Heckert
  • Part II Ongoing Deviance Dynamics
  • The Process of Deviantization - Daniel Dotter
  • Changing Definitions of Deviance - John Curra
  • The Medicalization of Deviance: From Badness to Sickness - Joseph Schneider
  • Decriminalization - John Dombrink
  • What is Homosexuality Doing in Deviance? - Jeffery P. Dennis
  • Part III Studying Deviance
  • Quantitative Methods in the Study of Deviance and Crime - Jeff Ackerman
  • Studying Deviance: Qualitative Methods - Richard Tewksbury
  • Explanatory Paradigms in the Study of Deviance - Robert F. Meier
  • Part IV Approaches, Explanations, Factors
  • Critical Criminology - Walter S. DeKeseredy
  • The Interactionist Approach to Deviance - Addrain Conyers and Thomas C. Calhoun
  • Gender and Deviance - Meredith G.F. Worthen and Danielle Dirks
  • Deviance and the Mass Media - David L. Altheide
  • Part V Individual Deviance
  • Juvenile Delinquency: Its Nature, Causes, and Control - Timothy Brezina and Robert Agnew
  • Alcohol Use as Deviance - Paul M. Roman
  • Drug Use as Deviance - Scott Akins and Clayton J. Mosher
  • Sociology and Sexual Deviance - Martin S. Weinberg and Colin J. Williams
  • Cognitive Deviance: Unconventional Beliefs - Robin D. Perrin
  • Abominations of the Body: Physical Characteristics as Deviance - Erich Goode
  • Part VI Institutional Deviance
  • Mental Illness as a Form of Deviance: Historical Notes and Contemporary Directions - Peter Conrad and Julia Bandini
  • Poverty and Disrepute - David L. Harvey
  • Environmental Harm as Deviance and Crime - Avi Brisman
  • Organizational Deviance: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going? - Melanie Bryant
  • Marginalizing Migrants: Illegality, Racialization, and Vulnerability - Dean Wilson
  • Political Deviance - Pat Lauderdale
  • Terrorism and Counterterrorism - Austin T. Turk
  • Part VII Deviance Futures
  • Deviance and Social Change - Nachman Ben-Yehuda
  • What's in Store for the Concept of Deviance?: Reflections, Speculations, Predictions - Erich Goode