Research Catalog

Title

Understanding deviance : a guide to the sociology of crime and rule-breaking / David Downes, Paul Rock.

Author

Downes, David M.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford Univ Press, 2011.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

Rock, Paul Elliott.

Description

xii, 409 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

'Understanding Deviance' provides an indispensable guide to the major themes and theories which have come to form the sociology of crime and deviance, from their origins in the research of the University of Chicago sociology department in the 1920s to the most recent work in cultural criminology.

Subjects

• Deviant behavior
• Crime > Sociological aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-393) and index.

Contents

Confusion and diversity -- Sources of knowledge about deviance -- The University of Chicago Sociology Department -- Functionalism, deviance, and control -- Anomie -- Culture and subculture -- Symbolic interactionism -- Phenomenology -- Control theories -- Radical criminology -- Feminist criminology -- Deviance theories and social policy -- The metamorphosis of deviance?

Call Number

JFF 12-782

ISBN

• 0199569835
• 9780199569830

LCCN

2010941964

OCLC

700145340

Author

Downes, David M.

Title

Understanding deviance : a guide to the sociology of crime and rule-breaking / David Downes, Paul Rock.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford Univ Press, 2011.

Edition

6th ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-393) and index.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Table of contents only

Added Author

Rock, Paul Elliott.

Research Call Number

JFF 12-782