Deviant Behavior And Deviance
What is deviance? What is deviant behavior? Who defines what is deviance? Are the same behaviors or people considered deviant in all historical errors and in all social contexts? Why do people engage in deviant behavior? How does society respond to deviant behavior? What measures or actions does society use or take to regulate, prevent, and punish deviance? And what are the consequences of these efforts?
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| A group sociologists explain deviance in terms of broad social conditions in which deviance is most likely to grow, looking at the structural characteristics of society and groups within society (Merton, Cloward and Ohlin). | A group of sociologists explain deviant behavior using the nature and characteristics of individuals focusing on those nature and characteristics that are most highly associated with learning deviant acts (Sutherland). | A group of sociologists stress the importance of labeling or stigmatizing. Interpersonal reactions to deviance may have a significant effect of increasing the likelihood of subsequent deviant behavior (H.Becker) |
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Deviance: Commonly refers to violations of social norms (including legal norms) but many sociologists reject this behavioral or normative definition of deviance and see deviance instead as simply a label. Deviance in this view is that which we react to, through social control responses, as deviance.
Deviant behavior usually evokes formal and informal punishment, restrictions, or other controls of society. These formal and informal controls constrain most people to conform to social norms. Despite the social sanctioning and controlling, however, we sometimes observe deviant behavior around us. Then, why do some people engage in such deviant behavior even if social punishments are expected? Sociologists have attempted to explain it in various aspects.
Deviation, Primary:Where the individual commits deviant acts but does not adopt a primary self-identity as a deviant.
Deviation, Secondary: Where the individual commits deviant acts and although recognizing that these acts are socially defined as deviant remains committed to continue them. This results in the adoption of a deviant self identity that confirms and stabilizes the deviant life style.
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The distinction between primary and secondary deviance is important in the development of social policies that reduce the chances of primary deviance inducing secondary deviance.
Primary Deviance is an initial deviant act. Deviant behaviors that are short-term or cease with adult status.
Primary Deviance is correlated with social, cultural, structural and psychological conditions.
Secondary deviance is deviance that results from being labeled as deviant. It evolves out of the offender's self-concept. It evolves from other's conception of a person.
Secondary Deviance is long-term and does not cease with adult status. Secondary Deviance includes chronic deviant behavior by people who come to identify themselves as deviant.
The concept of deviance: What is deviant behavior?
A. Deviance or accepted norms are created or defined by society through a general consensus. What is deviant is not a property inherent in the act of deviance.
B. Deviance does not conform to expectations and norms that exist within a society.
C. Group interests play important role in defining deviance.
D. Large or powerful segments of society determine norms and thus determine what is or is not deviant:
People at the bottom of the socio-economic scale are most often labeled as deviant, because the powerful in society determine what is deviant
However "deviant" something may be, unless the powerful disapprove, it is not deviant
Thus a behavior participated in by all or a majority of people can still be considered deviant.
For conflict theorists, deviance is defined & enforced in a way that perpetuates the dominance of elites over the less powerful or powerless.
Studies of the sociology of rule-making show that what is defined as deviant is the outcome of a political process
Group interests play an important role in defining what behaviors are considered deviant or normal
E. Observations of social interaction reveal that definitions of deviance tend to vary according to who performs the act.
F. Few people are arrested and processed as criminals, whereas, self-report surveys reveal most people violate rules.
G. Behavior must be context appropriate: what is normal in one context may be deviant in another.
H. The nature of deviance changes from culture to culture.
The nature of deviance changes from culture to culture due to the fact that behavior is socially labeled as deviant or normal and the individual cultures and societies define deviance in their own ways.
Cross-Cultural Analysis indicates that notions of right and wrong vary among cultures.
I. Deviance is noticeable historically because the nature of deviance changes over time
J. Deviant behavior is not a violation of anything absolute i.e., it is not inherent in any particular forms of behavior
K. In an analysis of deviance, the concept of relativism denotes that no behavior is "naturally" or morally deviant or bad.
All behavior is socially labeled either as deviant or normal, but this does not mean that any behavior is acceptable.
Relativism is the contention that what is deviant in any society is the consequence of social or political processes.
Examples of Deviance as a violation of social norms
A. Folkways are the most informal of norms
Examples of a Folkway include manners, etiquette, customs, etc.
B. Mores are serious norms that may or may not be written into law
Examples of a More include flag burning, questioning someone's religion or politics, etc.
C. Laws are a type of norm with the support of the state or government sanctioning either criminal or civil punishment
Criminal law is law which the state will prosecute. The body of rules or principles prescribed by authority or established by custom, which a state, community, society, or the like recognizes as binding.
Civil law is law which allows one citizen to prosecute another.
Social control includes all social processes used to minimize deviance from social norms; e.g., culture, norms, socialization, law, etc. There are two types of Social Control
Direct Social Control is Regulation through the enforcement of normative standards. It is often done by a person(s) with authority and responsibility.
Indirect Social Control is Regulation through ideological or cultural manipulation. It is often done by surrogate human authority such as rules, customs, laws, even machines.
Indirect social control is accomplished through socialization.
Indirect social control is the most powerful type of social control.
Examples of direct & indirect control
Sanctions are rewards for conforming behavior and punishments for nonconforming behavior.
A Formal Positive Sanction is a formal reward, etc. is applied by a socially recognized actor (person, organization, institution, etc.) empowered to give that reward. Formal Positive Sanction are well defined and can only be applied by people with proper institutional credentials
An Informal Positive Sanction is an informal reward, etc. by almost any actor (person, organization, etc.)
The Functions of Positive Social Control Methods are social control, inducement, and reward.
A Formal Negative Sanction is a formal punishment, etc. by a socially recognized actor (person, organization, institution, etc.) empowered to give that punishment.
Formal sanctions are well defined and can only be applied by people with proper institutional credentials
An Informal Negative Sanction is an informal punishment, etc. by almost any actor (person, organization, etc.)
The Functions of Negative Social Control Methods are social control, deterrence, and punishment.
A Moral Crusade is an interest group's attempt to define a behavior as deviant. Joseph Gusfield's study of alcohol prohibition concluded that the American Temperance Movement was an example of a Moral Crusade.
An examination of deviance and social control is an examination of the appropriateness or correctness and necessity of government and other social actors to utilize all types of social control, labels of deviance, sanctions, etc. to advance a moral crusade, or any behavior or ideology.
The functionalist perspective in deviance and social control is best represented by Emile Durkheim and Talcott Parsons. According to Durkheim, the positive consequences of deviance and social control include increased solidarity.
Durkheim on Social Order
Durkheim believed that a major sociological question was the question of Social Order, which considers how society might establish and maintain social stability and cohesiveness
Durkheim developed the concepts of Mechanical and Organic Solidarity to denote the "social glue" which held the respective traditional and modern social fabrics together.
The Problem of Social Order occurs primarily when, during the process of modernization, Mechanical Solidarity breaks down, and is not yet replaced with Organic Solidarity.
The Problem of Social Order may also occur when a given Traditional or Modern Society becomes so stressed that Solidarity is weakened or destroyed.
Anomie, Deviance and Crime exist in all Societies as they change at the margins and for boundary maintenance, etc., but they become Social Problems when Solidarity breaks down.
Deviance is so crucial to social order that societies lacking a given amount of it would redefine acceptable behavior to create deviance.
Regarding deviance and dysfunctions, Durkheim believed that deviance, beyond a certain level, threatens the social order and can be dysfunctional.
High levels of immigration may be a major social problem, but not because of economic or job issues.
Immigration is a major problem in our modern society because immigrants do not know the norms and laws of this country and therefore are a source of social instability
The instability fostered by immigration can be functional if it is limited & the society can absorb & integrate the new culture
The instability inherent in immigration can undermine the old order creating conflict, instability, anomie, crime, deviance, etc.
Durkheim on Crime
Durkheim viewed a limited amount of crime as functional for society, however if crime became too pervasive, this was a symptom of anomie & the breakdown of the Social Order
Durkheim believed that an affinity for crime was the result of social forces
Durkheim, as he often did, developed his own position in direct opposition to other prevailing ideas of his time (late 1800s)
Durkheim directly refuted the positions that an affinity for crime was the result of something that is in individuals' psychologicalor physiological makeup
Durkheim's anomic explanation of crime holds that the breakdown of norms causes crime. Durkheim developed the concept of Anomie, which is a condition of normlessness in society. In a society, within the normal range of anomie we find that there are always some people who are outside the system. In a society, outside of the normal range of anomie we find that people engage in more deviant behavior, crime, riot, revolution, etc. Anomie occurs at some normal level in society, but becomes socially pathological when the Social Order breaks down & anomie becomes widespread creating waves of deviance, crime, chaos, etc.
Durkheim's solidarity explanation of crime is that Deviance exists because society must have a set of behavioral expectations that help to define the character of that society.
According to Durkheim & the Functionalists there are Positive Consequences of deviance and social control:
Deviance or crime promotes solidarity in mainstream society.
Deviance or crime sets boundaries.
Deviance is so crucial to social order that societies lacking it would redefine acceptable behavior to create deviance.
Conflict Theorists would note that Deviance has many other positive consequences, i.e., it is a source of innovation.
There are also Dysfunctions of Deviance in that Deviance beyond a certain level threatens the social order.
Durkheim on Punishment
Public punishment is good for society.
Public punishment is good for society not for the thrill, but because it allows us to see us as good and others as bad and the experience of a communal punishment against an offender builds solidarity.
Durkheim's view of the purpose of punishment is not to deter or correct the offender, rather it is to maintain the fundamental values of the community.
Functionalists, including Durkheim, argue that the use of coercive social control is legitimate because laws are enacted by representatives of the people in the interest of the people.
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RAYMOND PATERNOSTER, CHARLES R. TITTLE., SOCIAL DEVIANCE AND CRIME - RAYMOND PATERNOSTER is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland,. College Park. He has conducted research related to criminological theory and the application of quantitative methods in criminological research. He also has a long standing interest in issues related to capital punishment. His collaboration with Professor Tittle goes back many years. CHARLES R. TITTLE is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Washington State University, and former editor of CRIMINOLOGY. His research interests include theories of deviance, urbanness and deviant behavior, and social control. devcrime.umd.edu/about.html
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Books On Deviant Behavior
On
Scandal: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics and Art (Structural Analysis in
the Social Sciences, No. 31) by Ari Adut (Aug 4, 2008 Book)
Thinking
About Deviance: A Realistic Perspective by Paul Higgins (Hardcover - Jul 28, 2008
Book)
Deviant
Behavior (8th Edition) Erich Goode (2007 Book)
Deviant
Behavior by Edward J. Clarke (Nov 6, 2007 Book)
Deviance
Across Cultures by Robert Heiner (Paperback - Sep 6, 2007 Book)
Deviant
Behavior: A Text-Reader in the Sociology of Deviance
Book by Delos H. Kelly
"An outstanding collection of both classical and contemporary, theoretical and
empirical selections that lucidly highlight numerous dimensions of deviance. Selection
summaries and analyses add to the usefulness of the volume." - Michael Klausner,
University of Pittsburgh. Examples of deviance.
Deviants
or Consenting Adults: Human Rights, Deviance, and Social Control
Book by Nick Larsen
Understanding
Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule Breaking
Book by David M. Downes, Paul Rock, David Downes, Paul Elliott Rock
This is the new edition of the popular textbook, Understanding Deviance, which guides the new student through the major sociological theories of crime, deviance and control. It offers an in-depth discussion of all the prominent theories of deviance, examining significant frameworks of the sub-discipline; from the early work of the University of Chicago in the 1920s, through issues such as functionalism and symbolic interactionism, and brings the reader fully up to date with a thorough treatment of Left Realism and 'third way' policies under New Labour. Examples of deviance.
Degrees
of Deviance: Student Accounts of Their Deviant Behavior
Stuart Henry, Roger Eaton (Editors)
Conventional texts on deviance may fail to connect the deviance of others to the students'
own real-life experiences. This book bridges the gap between student experiences and the
wider phenomenon of deviant behavior. It aims to prepare students for the concepts that
they will subsequently encounter in deviancy text-books. It invites students to explore
how deviance is socially constructed by grounding their reading in contemporary accounts
of fellow students' behavior. It is a book about student involvement in various degrees of
deviant behavior, written in their own words. Examples of deviance.
Encyclopedia
of Criminology and Deviant Behaviour
Book by Clifton D. Bryant (Editor)
The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior is the first truly comprehensive
work in the field of criminology and sociology. This unique Encyclopedia is separated into
four volumes, covering Historical, Conceptual, and Theoretical Issues and Self Destructive
and Disvalues Identity. There are over 550 entries--each with 2,000 to 3,500 words
covering a multitude of topics related to criminology, deviant behavior, and other unusual
sociological phenomena. Each entry includes a comprehensive definition of the term,
concise practical information (such as tables and/or diagrams), and a bibliography; they
are written in such a way to be accessible not only to professionals or those familiar
with the terminology, but also to students and non-expert professionals.
The editor-in-chief of this comprehensive encylopedia is a leading figure in criminology
and deviant behaviour. He is the former President of the Southern Sociological Association
and the Mid-South Sociological Association. Dr. Bryant was a founding Editor-in-Chief of
the journal Deviant Behavior and was a Fulbright Professor at the National Taiwan
University. He has also been awarded numerous awards and has written countless articles. Examples of deviance.
Deviance
and Deviants: An Anthology - Book by Martin D. Schwartz (Foreword), Patricia
Gagne (Editor), Richard Tewksbury, Richard A. Tewksbury (Editor)
This unique collection of highly readable articles offers a fresh, alternative approach to
teaching deviance. Articles were chosen that will pique student interest and stimulate
lively class discussion by challenging preconceived notions of deviance and people labeled
as "deviant." Examples of deviance.
Class Struggle and Deviant Labeling in Mao's China: Becoming Enemies of the People (Chinese Studies, V. 18).) Book by Wenhui Cai, Wen-Hui Tsai
Tsai (sociology and anthropology, Indian Purdue U., Fort Wayne) utilizes autobiographies and memoirs of Chinese intellectuals and others as a window into how the Chinese Communist Party, under the leadership of Mao, labeled as deviants and "enemies of the people" those whose views didn't fit with the social order being promulgated by the Party. The work uses labeling theory to study how the branding of deviancy is a social dynamic of identification and exclusion in all societies and looks at the particular dynamics of deviant-labeling under Mao. A final chapter explores the use of deviant-labeling in post-Maoist China, with an exploration of the current governments relationship with the religious movement Falun Gong. Examples of deviant behaviour. Examples of deviance.
Readings
in Deviant Behavior: Classic and Contemporary
Book by Nathaniel Eugene Terrell, Robert F. Meier, Robert Meier
Readings in Deviant Behavior: Classic and Contemporary brings together over 50 articles in 16 chapters. The text is organized traditionally, beginning with a discussion on the nature of deviance followed by material on theories and perspectives to explain deviance and ending with articles that discuss forms of deviant behavior. Each chapter begins with an introduction and concludes with questions for discussion. The mix of contemporary and classic readings explores the theoretical approaches to deviant and contemporary issues. High-tech, white-collar crime and gender issues are included. This text parallels the organization of the best-selling Clinard/Meier text but is general enough to be used with other textbooks or as a stand-alone textbook. Examples of deviant behaviour.
Social
Control & Socialization: The Role Of Morality As A Social Mechanism In Adolescent
Deviant Behavior (Stockholm Studies in Sociology)
Book by Robert Svensson
The object of this doctoral dissertation is to study the processes and mechanisms that
restrain adolescents from committing deviant and criminal acts. The framework is that when
the socialization process functions well, and norms and values are internalized, an
individual will develop a moral sense as to what is right and wrong. In line with this,
morality is examined as a social mechanism that may assist us in understanding and
explaining the relationship between socialization and adolescent deviance and criminal
offenses. The dissertation also discusses what influence the peer group and structural
conditions have on deviant and delinquent behavior. Examples of deviant
behaviour.
The dissertation is based on three empirical studies. The first study examines gender
differences in adolescent drug use in terms of parental monitoring and peer deviance. The
second study examines the relationship between gender, parent-child relations, shame, and
juvenile delinquency. The third study examines the way attachment to parents and school
bonds are linked to levels of self-esteem (measured as self-rejection) and morality
(measured as pro-social values), and whether these factors are linked to associations with
delinquent friends in the explanation of delinquency. Examples of deviant
behaviour.
Deviant
Behavior 7th Edition Book by Erich Goode
Understanding deviance from the major sociological perspectives and theories of deviance
by providing a comprehensive, balanced examination of the conceptual foundation of the
sociology of deviance. Gives the reader interesting material about real life experiences
of deviance from which they can understand the different types of deviant individuals that
exist in our society. Helps the reader interested in understanding deviant behavior to
understand the full range of deviance and emphasizes deviance is not always a motivated
behavior whose occurrence needs to be explained. Examples of deviant
behaviour.
Sociology of Deviant Behavior - Book by Marshall B. Clinard, Robert F. Meier
In addition to covering the classically "accepted" forms of deviance, this update of the 1998 edition adds such intriguing topics as eating disorders, nudism, physician-assisted suicide, whistle-blowers, the Whitewater scandal, Workaholics Anonymous, and yuppies. This iteration also offers a new chapter on white-collar and corporate crime; a Studies in Stigma section; greater stress on contemporary issues of social control and technology; and raises the issue of whether everyone is an addict of some kind. Examples of deviant behaviour.
Deviant Knowledge: Criminology, Politics and Policy - Book by Reece Walters
The
Deviant Mystique : Involvements, Realities, and Regulation
Book by Robert Prus, Scott Grills
Adopting a symbolic interactionist perspective and building extensively on the ethnographic research tradition, this book analyzes the mystique that often accompanies deviance by examining deviance as an ongoing feature of community life. Because deviance is approached in nonprescriptive ways, as a product of community interchange, the emphasis here is on the ways in which deviance is defined, engaged, and regulated. Examples of deviant behaviour.
The
Sociology of Deviance Book by Joseph G. Weis
A collection of 38 articles by experts on deviant behavior problems.
Constructions
of Deviance: Social Power, Context, and Interaction
Book by Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler
This text is the industry standard for publishing the most recent and relevant articles in the field. It demonstrates to students how the concepts and theories of deviance can be applied to the world around them. The authors include both theoretical analyses and ethnographic illustrations of how deviance is socially constructed, organized, and managed. The Adlers challenge the reader to see the diversity and pervasiveness of deviance in society by covering a wide variety of deviant acts represented throughout the text. Most importantly, the Adlers present deviance as a component of society and examine the construction of deviance in terms of differential social power, whereby some members of society have the power to define other whole groups as "deviant." The book takes an "interactionist" or "constructionist" perspective on deviance, looking at the processes in society that create deviance. The authors have selected studies that are ethnographic in character, focusing on the experiences of deviants, the deviant-making process, and the ways in which people who are labeled as deviant in society react to that label. Examples of deviant behaviour.
Crime
in Literature: Sociology of Deviance and Fiction
Vincenzo Ruggiero
Crime in Literature addresses the issues of crime and crime control through the reading of
several classical literary works. It is not a work of literary criticism, but a book
written by a sociologist who reads fiction sociologically. Vincent Ruggiero's wide-ranging
study takes in several authors, including Hugo, Dostoevsky, Camus, Cervantes, Mann and
Zola, and addresses themes such as organized crime, the links between crime and drugs,
political and administrative corruption, concepts of deviancy, and the criminal justice
process. Examples of deviant behaviour.
Drugs
and Crime Deviant Pathways
Book Editors: Serge Brochu, Candido Da Agra, Marie-Marthe Cousineau, Candido Da Agra
Exposes international studies from leading social sciences researchers who use various theoretical perspectives and methodological orientations to depict deviant drug and crime-related pathways. The chapters have been grouped into four sections. The first section, Deviance, Set and Setting, discusses a new basis for the understanding of deviant pathways. The second section, Youth, Drug and Delinquency Pathways, presents empirical studies which help to understand the drug-crime relationship. The third section discusses Adult, Drug and Crime Pathways adopted by drug users, "flexers", traders or dealers, and traffickers. Finally, the fourth section, Ways Out of deviant pathways, explores approaches for controlling drug use and criminality socially or individually, with or without legal intervention or formal help. In short, this book presents an invaluable overview of the most advanced research in the field of deviant drug-and crime-related pathways. Examples of deviant behaviour.
Deviant
Behavior and Human Rights [FACSIMILE]
by John F. Galliher (Editor)
A broad collection of readings on contemporary social issues that involve deviant behavior
and human rights abuses.
The
Sociology of Crime and Deviance: Selected Issues (Greenwich Readers, 6)
by Susan Caffrey (Editor), Gary Mundy (Editor)
On
Scandal: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics and Art (Structural Analysis in
the Social Sciences, No. 31) by Ari Adut (Aug 4, 2008)
"The popular way of treating scandals in the media is partisan or prurient and
sensationalist. Ari Adut's book On Scandal cuts in another direction. He is analytical and
comparative, showing the conditions under which various kinds of scandals occur or do not
occur. Adut's work will illuminate the reader in the advance of sociological
understanding. It is both an intellectual pleasure and a pleasure to read. It opens
contentious events to the sociological eye with great clarity. The book will make its
readers scandal-sophisticates." - Randall Collins, Dorothy Swaine Professor in
Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
"Ari Adut tells us better than any scholar before him how scandals work. His case
studies of scandals in politics and in art, of sex and of money and of taste, from the
U.S., the U.K., and France, all give weight to a study that is sociologically original,
subtle, and illuminating." - Michael Schudson, Columbia School of Journalism, author
of The Good Citizen
"Historians and journalists have long written about particular scandals but have
rarely reflected about scandal in general. In this brilliant and very readable book, Ari
Adut subjects scandal to a penetrating sociological gaze, revealing its repeated dynamics
and its potent force as an agent of social and cultural change. This is sociology at its
most illuminating." - William Sewell, Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor
of Political Science and History Emeritus, University of Chicago
"Scandal has arisen for centuries and has always involved publicizing and
stigmatizing moral transgression. In a wide-ranging historical and contemporary analysis,
Ari Adut shows, however, that the central offenses around which scandal arises change and
vary both dramatically and systematically. Read Adut for shock value if you wish, but read
him especially for a major contribution to the analysis of public moral sensibility."
- Viviana A. Zelizer, Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology, Princeton University,
author of The Purchase of Intimacy
Product Description
Scandal is the quintessential public event. Here is the first general and comprehensive
analysis of this ubiquitous moral phenomenon. Taking up wide-ranging cases in society,
politics, and art, Ari Adut shows when wrongdoings generate scandals and when they do not.
He focuses on the emotional and cognitive experience of scandals and the relationships
among those who are involved in or exposed to them. This perspective explains variations
in the effects, frequency, elicited reactions, outcomes, and strategic uses of scandals.
On Scandal offers provocative accounts of the Oscar Wilde, Watergate, and Lewinsky
affairs. Adut also employs the lens of scandal to address puzzles and questions regarding
public life. Why is American politics plagued by sex scandals? What is the cause of the
rise in political scandals in Western democracies? Why were Victorians sometimes very
accommodating and other times very intolerant of homosexuality? What is the social logic
of hypocrisy? Why has transgression been so central to modern art?
Encyclopedia
of Criminology and Deviant Behaviour by Clifton Bryant (Hardcover - Nov 10, 2000)
The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior can be strongly recommended as an
excellent acquisition for a wide range of libraries, including research, college and
public libraries.
–American Reference Books Annual
The Encyclopedia has many virtues. Among them are: 1) the breadth of its coverage; 2) the
quality of writing and organization; 3) and the short but invaluable list of additional
readings after each entry....It should be a staple in libraries of all sorts, from high
schools to specialized research centers.
–Malcolm M. Feeley, Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of
California, Berkeley
The Encyclopedia is the first place to turn for concise overviews of virtually every
significant topic in the study of crime and deviance....The Encyclopedia will be of
tremendous value to students and researchers alike.
–Timothy Brezina, Tulane University
The past forty years witnessed a tremendous growth in sociological studies of crime and
deviance. The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior is the first comprehensive
effort to summarize what has been learned.... Students can use this reference tool as an
introduction to key issues, while professionals will find it a helpful guide to a vast
literature of specialized studies.
–Joel Best, University of Delaware
This is a stunning accomplishment; a landmark in the field; it provides a starting point
for all future critical work in criminology and deviant behavior. Editor Bryant is to be
thanked.
–Norman Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Product Description
The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior is the first truly comprehensive work
in the field of criminology and sociology. This unique Encyclopedia is separated into four
volumes, covering Historical, Conceptual, and Theoretical Issues and Self Destructive and
Disvalues Identity. There are over 550 entries--each with 2,000 to 3,500 words covering a
multitude of topics related to criminology, deviant behavior, and other unusual
sociological phenomena. Each entry includes a comprehensive definition of the term,
concise practical information (such as tables and/or diagrams), and a bibliography; they
are written in such a way to be accessible not only to professionals or those familiar
with the terminology, but also to students and non-expert professionals.
The editor-in-chief of this comprehensive encylopedia is a leading figure in criminology
and deviant behaviour. He is the former President of the Southern Sociological Association
and the Mid-South Sociological Association. Dr. Bryant wasa founding Editor-in-Chief of
the journal Deviant Behavior and was a Fulbright Professor at the National Taiwan
University. He has also been awarded numerous awards and has written countless articles.
The Sociology of Crime and Deviance
Deviant Behavior and Human Rights
Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behaviour
Class Struggle and Deviant Labeling in Mao's China
Constructions of Deviance Social Power Context and Ineraction
Drugs and Crime Deviant Pathways
The Sociology of Deviance STUDENT EDITION 2003
Understanding Deviance A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule Breaking
Sociology of Deviance and Fiction
Deviant Behavior (7th Edition)
Social Control & Socialization
Deviant Knowledge Criminology Politics and Policy
A Text-Reader in the Sociology of Deviance
Deviance and dynamics of deviant-labeling under Mao
Examples of deviance.
Examples of deviant behaviour.