New Books On Deviant Behavior

	Books On Deviant Behavior
	Sociologyindex	Sociology Books 2008
	Deviant Behavior: A Text-Reader in the Sociology of Deviance 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. Deviants or Consenting Adults: Human Rights, Deviance, and Social Control Edition - January 2004 Nick Larsen Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule Breaking 4th Edition - May 2003 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.

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.

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.

Deviance and Deviants: An Anthology - Edition November 1999 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."

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.

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.

Social Control & Socialization: The Role Of Morality As A Social Mechanism In Adolescent Deviant Behavior (Stockholm Studies in Sociology)
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.

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.

Deviant Behavior 7th Edition July 2004 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.

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.

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.

The Sociology of Deviance STUDENT EDITION 2003
by Joseph G. Weis
A collection of 38 articles by experts on deviant behavior problems.

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.

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.

Drugs and Crime Deviant Pathways
Edition - November 2002 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.

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.