Books On Deviant Behavior

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Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance - September 2009 Book by Goode and Ben-Yehuda

Outlines & Highlights for Deviant Behavior: Crime, Conflict, and Interest Groups by McCaghy, ISBN: 0205570836 by  (Spiral-bound - 2008 Book)

Deviance and Social Control in Sport by Kevin Young and Michael Atkinson (Hardcover - Aug 31, 2008 Book)

Constructions of Deviance: Social Power, Context, and Interaction Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler 2008 Book

On Scandal: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics and Art (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, No. 31) by Ari Adut (Aug 4, 2008 Book) -   "...intellectually worthwhile and entertaining." - Publishers Weekly

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)

Sociology of Deviant Behavior by Marshall B. Clinard and Robert F. Meier (Hardcover - Feb 14, 2007 Book)

Deviant Behavior: Crime, Conflict, and Interest Groups Charles H. McCaghy, Timothy A. Capron, J. D. Jamieson, and Sandra H Harley Carey (Nov 19, 2007 Book)

Readings in Deviant Behavior (5th Edition) by Alex Thio, Thomas C. Calhoun, and Addrain Conyers (Paperback - Jun 21, 2007 Book)

Deviance: The Interactionist Perspective (10th Edition) by Earl S Rubington and Martin S. Weinberg (Paperback - Jul 27, 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

Deviants or Consenting Adults: Human Rights, Deviance, and Social Control
Book by Nick Larsen

Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behaviour by Clifton Bryant (Hardcover - Nov 10, 2000)

Reviews:

Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance - September 2009 Book by Goode and Ben-Yehuda
"Moral Panics is more than a classic text in social theory. In this newly updated and enlarged edition, it is an indispensable text for every twenty-first century scholar interested in the social construction and diffusion of fear." Barry Glassner, author of The Culture of Fear "Moral panics remains one of the most hotly-debated sociological ideas to have entered the public sphere, so an up-dated version of Goode and Ben-Yehuda's pathbreaking work on this subject is very welcome. The new version is even more enlightening than its predecessor." Kenneth Thompson, Open University
"In a thoroughly updated new edition of their very valuable book, Goode and Ben-Yehuda demonstrate the wide gulf that so often separates the real menaces facing our society from the disproportionate waves of public fear and concern that regularly surface in the mass media. Their book - intelligently written, wide-ranging and provocative - shows us once again that knowing what a society fears is essential to understanding its core values, and its highest aspirations."
–Philip Jenkins, Pennsylvania State University

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 they will subsequently encounter in deviancy text-books. It is a book about student involvement in various degrees of deviant behavior, written in their own words.

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. 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.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 - Book by Martin D. Schwartz (Foreword), Patricia Gagne (Editor), Richard Tewksbury, Richard A. Tewksbury (Editor)
Articles were chosen that will pique student interest and 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. 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.

Deviant Behavior and Human Rights [FACSIMILE]
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) - 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?