Books On Deviant Behavior
Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance - Book by Goode and Ben-Yehuda
Outlines & Highlights for Deviant Behavior: Crime, Conflict, Interest Groups McCaghy,
Deviance and Social Control in Sport by Kevin Young and Michael Atkinson
Constructions of Deviance: Social Power, Context, and Interaction Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler
On Scandal: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics and Art by Ari Adut
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Thinking About Deviance: A Realistic Perspective by Paul Higgins
Deviant Behavior (8th Edition) Erich Goode
Deviant Behavior by Edward J. Clarke
Sociology of Deviant Behavior by Marshall B. Clinard and Robert F. Meier
Deviant Behavior: Crime, Conflict, and Interest Groups Charles H. McCaghy, Timothy A. Capron, J. D. Jamieson, and Sandra H Harley Carey
Readings in Deviant Behavior (5th Edition) by Alex Thio, Thomas C. Calhoun, and Addrain Conyers
Deviance: The Interactionist Perspective (10th Edition) by Earl S Rubington and Martin S. Weinberg
Deviance Across Cultures by Robert Heiner
Deviant Behavior: A Text-Reader in the Sociology of Deviance Book by Delos H. Kelly
Deviants or Consenting Adults: Human Rights, Deviance, and Social Control by Nick Larsen
Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behaviour by Clifton Bryant
Reviews:
Moral
Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance
Moral Panics is a classic text in social theory. Moral panics is a highly-debated
sociological idea.
Understanding
Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule Breaking
Book by David M. Downes, Paul Rock, David Downes, Paul Elliott Rock. Understanding
Deviance guides the new student through the major sociological theories of crime, deviance
and control.
Degrees
of Deviance: Student Accounts of Their Deviant Behavior
Book by Stuart Henry, Roger Eaton (Editors)
This book bridges the gap between student experiences and the wider phenomenon of deviant
behavior. It aims to prepare students for the concepts that will appear in deviancy
text-books. Book about student involvement in various degrees of deviant behavior.
Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behaviour Book by Clifton D. Bryant (Editor)
The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior is a comprehensive work in the field of criminology and sociology covering a multitude of topics related to criminology, deviant behavior, and other unusual sociological phenomena. Each entry includes a comprehensive definition of the term. Dr. Bryant was a founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Deviant Behavior and was a Fulbright Professor at the National Taiwan University.
Deviance
and Deviants: An Anthology - Martin D. Schwartz (Foreword), Patricia Gagne,
Richard Tewksbury, Richard A. Tewksbury
Will stimulate lively class discussion by challenging preconceived notions of deviance and
people labeled as "deviant."
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.
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.
Social
Control & Socialization: The Role Of Morality As A Social Mechanism In Adolescent
Deviant Behavior (Stockholm Studies in Sociology) Book by Robert Svensson
The dissertation also discusses what influence the peer group and structural conditions
have on deviant and delinquent behavior.
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.
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.
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.
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. 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
Book by 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.
Drugs
and Crime Deviant Pathways
Book Editors: Serge Brochu, Candido Da Agra, Marie-Marthe Cousineau, Candido Da
Agra. 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. 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.
Deviant
Behavior and Human Rights Book 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)
Book 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)