Sociology Of Deviant Behavior
ISBN: 9780495811671 | 049581167X
Edition: 14thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 3/24/2010
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This book has been the market leader for more than 40 years. It continues its popularity due to its thorough updating of data, facts, and figures while retaining the basic focus on solid research findings through a sociological point of view. Designed to appeal to today's readers, the new edition examines topics with relevance for today - cultural and social reactions to deviance; the growing interest in white-collar and corporate crime; and the importance of the Internet and computer communications in changing views on deviance in modern life.
| Introduction to Deviance | |
| The Nature and Meaning of Deviance | |
| Deviant Events and Social Control | |
| Explaining Deviance | |
| Becoming Deviant | |
| Theories in Deviance | |
| Deviance and Crime | |
| Crimes of Interpersonal Violence | |
| Nonviolent Crime | |
| White-Collar and Corporate Crime | |
| Types of Deviance | ... MORE|
| Drug Use and Addiction | |
| Drunkenness and Alcoholism | |
| Suicide | |
| Heterosexual Deviance | |
| Studies in Stigma | |
| Gays, Lesbians, and Homophobia | |
| Physical Disabilities | |
| Mental Disorders | |
| Looking Ahead | |
| Recent Forms of Deviance | |
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