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Deviant Behavior: Crime, Conflict, and Interest Groups

by: McCaghy, Charles H.; Capron, Timothy A.; Jamieson, Jay

Deviant Behavior: Crime, Conflict, and Interest Groups

by: McCaghy, Charles H.; Capron, Timothy A.; Jamieson, Jay

ISBN 13:
9780205296163
ISBN 10:
0205296165
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 10/01/1999
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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Summary

Deviant Behavior combines a balanced, comprehensive overview of the field of deviance with first-hand expertise in the workings of the criminal justice system. Using the framework of interest group conflict, the text surveys a wide range of topics, from violent crime and organizational deviance to sexual behavior, mental health, and substance abuse.

Preface

PART I

(112)

Perspectives on Deviants

(46)

Who Is Deviant?

(3)

The Rational Deviant---The Classical School

(2)

The Deviant as Determined---Positivist Criminology

(4)

Physical Characteristics of Deviants---Early Approaches

(6)

Phrenology---The Beginning of the Scientific Study of the Deviant

(2)

The Positivist School

(3)

Heredity and Mental Deficiencies

(6)

A Short Note on Eugenics

(2)

Twin Studies

(2)

The Bell Curve

(1)

Physical Characteristics Revisited

(7)

Biological Inferiority

(2)

Somatology

(1)

XYY Chromosome Syndrome

(1)

Brain Malfunction

(3)

Personality Defects and Attributes

(8)

Psychopathy

(1)

Traits and Thinking

(4)

Unconscious Motivation

(2)

Sociobiology---Trailblazing or Backtracking?

(9)

Perspectives on Deviance

(35)

Economic Influences

(5)

Karl Marx

(1)

Willem Bonger

(2)

The Smoky Pilgrims

(1)

Anomie

(10)

Durkheim's Anomie

(1)

Merton's Anomie

(8)

Subcultures of Deviance

(7)

Social Disorganization and Learning

(2)

Differential Association Theory

(3)

Control Theory

(12)

Classical Theory Revisited

(2)

Women and Deviance Theories

(1)

Integration of Theories

(6)

Why Is Certain Behavior Deviant?

(29)

The Labeling Perspective

(8)

The Production of Deviance

(5)

The Effect of Labeling on Behavior

(3)

Conflict Perspectives

(11)

Culture Conflict

(1)

Group Conflict

(2)

Conflict and Authority

(2)

Radical Theory

(5)

Once Again: What Is Deviant?

104

(3)

Interest Group Conflict and Deviance

107

(6)

PART II

113

(164)

Crime in the Streets---Against the Person

115

(39)

Measuring Crime

116

(2)

Murder and Aggravated Assault

118

(17)

Dimensions of Homicide

119

(5)

Violence: An American Value

124

(4)

The Subculture of Interpersonal Violence

128

(2)

The Conflict over Guns

130

(5)

Forcible Rape

135

(9)

Dimensions of Rape

136

(5)

Violence and Sex

141

(3)

Violent Sex and Conflict

144

(10)

Crime in the Streets---Against Property

154

(28)

Robbery

154

(5)

Dimensions of Robbery

154

(3)

Types of Robbers

157

(2)

Burglary

159

(4)

Dimensions of Burglary

160

(1)

The World of Burglary

161

(2)

Motor Vehicle Theft

163

(3)

Dimensions of Motor Vehicle Theft

163

(1)

Joyriders, Professionals, and Others

164

(2)

Larceny-Theft

166

(5)

The Extent of Shoplifting

166

(1)

Types of Shoplifters

167

(2)

Reactions to Shoplifting

169

(2)

Arson

171

(2)

Types of Arsonists

172

(1)

Larceny in the American Heart

173

(9)

The Rip-off Philosophy

175

(7)

Assaults Against Children and Spouses

182

(43)

Physical Abuse of Children

183

(13)

Problems of Definition

184

(3)

The Discovery and Medicalization of Physical Abuse

187

(3)

Extent

190

(2)

Characteristics

192

(1)

Stress, Power, and Culture

193

(3)

Spouse Abuse

196

(11)

The Discovery of Spouse Abuse

197

(2)

Extent

199

(2)

Characteristics

201

(2)

Stress and Power---Again

203

(4)

Sexual Abuse of Children

207

(18)

Extent

208

(1)

Characteristics

209

(1)

Types of Molesters and Their Offenses

210

(4)

Adult--Child Sex: A Matter of Liberation?

214

(11)

Deviance and Organizations

225

(52)

Employee Theft

228

(7)

Pilferage

229

(2)

Embezzlement

231

(3)

Organizations as Victims

234

(1)

Police Corruption

235

(8)

Meat- and Grass-Eaters

236

(3)

Rotten Apples or Rotten Barrels?

239

(4)

Corporate Deviance

243

(13)

Price-Fixing: A Fact of American Industry?

245

(2)

``Would You Buy a Used Car from This Man?''

247

(3)

``You Are What You Eat''

250

(3)

The Badness of Good Business

253

(3)

Organized Crime

256

(21)

Characteristics and Structure

257

(5)

From Muscle to Respectability

262

(1)

Ethnic Succession

263

(1)

Sources of Profit

264

(13)

PART III

277

(154)

Deviant Drug Use

279

(56)

Drug Use as Deviance

280

(6)

Some Terminology

281

(5)

Alcohol

286

(17)

Alcohol as a Drug

286

(2)

Alcohol Use and Deviance

288

(3)

Alcoholism, Disease, and Problem Drinking

291

(5)

Correlates of Problem Drinking

296

(4)

Alcohol and Conflict

300

(3)

Heroin

303

(12)

Heroin as a Drug

305

(2)

Heroin Use and Deviance

307

(5)

Heroin and Conflict

312

(3)

Marijuana

315

(6)

Marijuana as a Drug

316

(2)

Marijuana Use and Deviance

318

(1)

Marijuana and Conflict

319

(2)

Cocaine

321

(2)

Cocaine as a Drug

321

(1)

Cocaine Use and Deviance

322

(1)

Cocaine and Conflict

322

(1)

Drug Control: The Great American Flop

323

(12)

Mental Disorders

335

(31)

What Is Mental Disorder?

336

(4)

Correlates of Mental Disorder

340

(5)

Social Class

340

(2)

Genetics

342

(1)

Family Setting

342

(1)

Stress

343

(2)

Disease or Label?

345

(10)

Mental Disease as a Myth

346

(1)

A Labeling Theory of Mental Disorder

347

(5)

Requiem for Labeling Theory?

352

(3)

Conflict and the Therapeutic State

355

(11)

Sex Psychopath Laws: The Grand Failure

356

(2)

The Problem of Involuntary Commitment

358

(8)

Cyberdeviance

366

(21)

Jeffrey Arbaugh

The Computer Underground

366

(16)

A Typology of the Computer Underground

367

(2)

The Relevant Actors of the Computer Underground

369

(5)

Subcultures of Deviance in the Computer Underground

374

(7)

Is the Computer Underground a Subculture?

381

(1)

Implications for Future Research

381

(1)

Implications for the Criminal Justice System

381

(1)

Sexual Deviance and Cyberspace

382

(5)

Opportunity for Sexual Deviance in Cyberspace

382

(1)

An Interview with White Eagle

383

(4)

Sexual Deviance: Prostitution and Homosexuality

387

(44)

Prostitution

388

(20)

The Context of Prostitution

391

(5)

Becoming a Prostitute

396

(5)

The Pimp

401

(2)

Prostitution and Conflict

403

(5)

Homosexuality

408

(23)

Homosexuality as Deviance

409

(4)

Homosexuality: Condition or Behavior?

413

(2)

Becoming ``Homosexual''

415

(7)

Homosexuality and Conflict

422

(9)

Name Index

431

(8)

Subject Index

439

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