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| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Deviance in Everyday Life | p. 3 |
| So, What Is Deviance? | p. 4 |
| Societal and Situational Deviance | p. 6 |
| The ABCs of Deviance | p. 7 |
| Deviant Behavior | p. 7 |
| Deviant Attitudes and Beliefs | p. 9 |
| Physical Characteristics | p. 10 |
| Tribe, Race, Religion, and Nation | p. 11 |
| A ... MORE | p. 11 |
| What Deviance Is Not | p. 12 |
| Relativism | p. 14 |
| Summary | p. 16 |
| Personal Account: A Computer Pirate Tells His Story | p. 18 |
| Questions | p. 21 |
| Approaches to Deviance | p. 22 |
| Positivism: An Introduction | p. 23 |
| Constructionist Approaches to Deviance: An Introduction | p. 27 |
| Deviance and Social Control: An Introduction | p. 31 |
| Formal and Informal Social Control | p. 33 |
| Summary | p. 34 |
| Personal Account: A Stripper Mom Tells Her Story | p. 36 |
| Questions | p. 41 |
| Explaining Deviant Behavior: Positivist Theories | p. 42 |
| Free Will, Rational Calculation, and Routine Activities Theory | p. 43 |
| Social Disorganization and the Chicago School | p. 45 |
| Anomie or Strain Theory | p. 47 |
| Anomie Theory into the 1990s and Beyond | p. 51 |
| Differential Association and Learning Theory | p. 53 |
| Social Control Theory | p. 54 |
| A General Theory of Crime: Self-Control Theory | p. 56 |
| Summary | p. 58 |
| Personal Account: Clinical Depression | p. 60 |
| Questions | p. 64 |
| Constructionist Theories of Deviance | p. 65 |
| Functionalism | p. 67 |
| Labeling or Interactionist Theory | p. 68 |
| Conflict Theory | p. 74 |
| Feminism | p. 77 |
| Controlology or the New Sociology of Social Control | p. 80 |
| How Are Judgments of Deviance Made? | p. 83 |
| The Role of Religion in Judgments of Deviance | p. 83 |
| Religion and Politics | p. 86 |
| Red State, Blue State | p. 89 |
| Retro versus Metro | p. 89 |
| Summary | p. 91 |
| Personal Account: Cody, the Identity-Constructing Homosexual | p. 94 |
| Questions | p. 99 |
| Studying Deviance: Methods in Social Research | p. 100 |
| The Use of Official Data | p. 101 |
| Survey Research | p. 104 |
| Participant Observation | p. 112 |
| Narratives, Autobiographies, Life Histories, and Personal Accounts | p. 116 |
| Ethical Issues in the Study of Deviance: Tearoom Sex, a Case Study | p. 118 |
| Summary | p. 120 |
| Personal Account: Field Experiment: Public Reactions to Normative Violations | p. 121 |
| Field Experiment: Two Guys Holding Hands in Public, Steven M. Clayton | p. 122 |
| Questions | p. 125 |
| Criminal Behavior | p. 126 |
| Deviance and Crime: A Rough Division of Labor | p. 127 |
| Crime and Deviance: A Conceptual Distinction | p. 130 |
| Common Law and Statutory Law | p. 131 |
| What Is Our Mission? Constructionism versus Positivism | p. 133 |
| The Severity of Crime | p. 134 |
| The Uniform Crime Reports | p. 137 |
| Property Crime | p. 138 |
| Shoplifting and Employee Theft | p. 141 |
| Summary | p. 143 |
| Personal Account: Omar's Story | p. 145 |
| Questions | p. 148 |
| Criminal Violence | p. 149 |
| Violence: An Introduction | p. 150 |
| Murder | p. 150 |
| Forcible Rape | p. 157 |
| Robbery | p. 164 |
| Is Robbery a Crime of Passion? | p. 168 |
| Summary | p. 169 |
| Personal Account: Having a Deviant Father | p. 170 |
| Questions | p. 172 |
| Illicit Drug Use | p. 174 |
| Drug Use: The Social Construction of a Social Problem | p. 176 |
| What Is Drug Use? | p. 179 |
| A Classification of Drugs and Their Effects | p. 180 |
| The Extent of Drug Use in the United States | p. 182 |
| Marijuana Use in the United States, 1960-2004 | p. 187 |
| Marijuana Use as Deviance and Crime | p. 189 |
| The War on Marijuana? The Great Transformation, 1990-2000s | p. 192 |
| Hallucinogenic Drugs | p. 194 |
| Cocaine and Crack | p. 197 |
| Heroin and the Narcotics | p. 201 |
| Methamphetamine | p. 202 |
| Summary | p. 205 |
| Personal Account: Barbiturate Abuse | p. 207 |
| Personal Account: Smoking Marijuana | p. 209 |
| Questions | p. 211 |
| Deviant Organizational Behavior | p. 272 |
| White-Collar and Corporate Crime | p. 215 |
| Corporate Crime: Correlative Features | p. 217 |
| Four Recent Examples of Corporate Deviance | p. 221 |
| Police Use of Excessive Force | p. 223 |
| The Sexual Abuse of Children by Roman Catholic Priests | p. 228 |
| Summary | p. 234 |
| Personal Account: Employee Pilferage | p. 235 |
| Questions | p. 237 |
| Sexual Deviance | p. 238 |
| What's Deviant About Sexual Behavior? | p. 240 |
| Essentialism versus Constructionism | p. 241 |
| Gendering Sexuality | p. 244 |
| Homosexuality | p. 245 |
| Sex Work | p. 253 |
| Extramarital Sex | p. 257 |
| Summary | p. 259 |
| Personal Account: Bondage and Discipline Sex | p. 261 |
| Questions | p. 265 |
| Personal Account: Being a Homosexual Priest | p. 266 |
| Questions | p. 268 |
| Cognitive Deviance: Holding Unconventional Beliefs | p. 269 |
| The Social Functions of Belief Systems | p. 274 |
| The Intersection of Religion and Deviance | p. 277 |
| Religious Sects and Cults | p. 278 |
| Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Evolution | p. 281 |
| Paranormal Beliefs as Deviant | p. 286 |
| Summary | p. 289 |
| Personal Account: The Belief That Extraterrestrials Are on Earth | p. 291 |
| Questions | p. 293 |
| Mental Disorder | p. 294 |
| What Is Mental Disorder? | p. 295 |
| Models of Mental Disorder | p. 297 |
| Essentialism Approaches Mental Disorder | p. 298 |
| Constructionism | p. 301 |
| Labeling Theory | p. 303 |
| The Modified Labeling Approach | p. 305 |
| Families of the Mentally Disordered: Labeling by Intimates | p. 307 |
| The Epidemiology of Mental Disorder | p. 309 |
| On Being Sane in Insane Places | p. 310 |
| Chemical Treatment of Mental Disorder | p. 315 |
| Deinstitutionalization | p. 317 |
| Deviance and Mental Disorder: An Overview | p. 318 |
| Summary | p. 319 |
| Personal Account: Interview with Anna-Maria, a Manic-Depressive | p. 321 |
| Questions | p. 325 |
| Physical Characteristics as Deviance | p. 326 |
| Abominations of the Body: An Introduction | p. 330 |
| Physical Disability | p. 330 |
| Conformity to and Violations of Esthetic Standards | p. 332 |
| Body Modification as Physical Deviance | p. 335 |
| Obesity | p. 336 |
| Intersexuality | p. 340 |
| Are the Overweight Universally Stigmatized? Black-White Differences | p. 340 |
| Agnes | p. 341 |
| The Two Debates: Essentialism-Constructionism/Nature-Nurture | p. 342 |
| From Bruce to Brenda to David (The Story of "John" and "Joan") | p. 344 |
| Freaks | p. 345 |
| Disability and Tertiary Deviance | p. 346 |
| Summary | p. 347 |
| Personal Account: Jan, the Transitioning Transsexual | p. 349 |
| Questions | p. 353 |
| References | p. 354 |
| Photo Credits | p. 369 |
| Name Index | p. 370 |
| Subject Index | p. 374 |
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