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Understanding deviance : a guide to the sociology of crime and rule-breaking

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 University Press, 2011.

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Additional Authors
Rock, Paul Elliott.
Description
xii, 409 pages; 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.
Subject
  • Criminal behavior
  • Criminal anthropology
  • Deviant behavior
  • Crime > Sociological aspects
  • 71.65 criminality as a social problem
  • 71.64 deviant behavior
  • Society
  • Deviant behaviour
  • Crime
  • Abweichendes Verhalten
  • Kriminalität
  • Soziologie
  • Brottslighet > sociala aspekter
  • Avvikande beteende
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?
ISBN
  • 0199569835
  • 9780199569830
LCCN
2010941964
OCLC
  • ocn700145340
  • 700145340
  • SCSB-8803531
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library