The Handbook of Deviance (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Goode, Erich

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Handbook of Deviance is a definitive reference for professionals, researchers, and students that provides a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the sociology of deviance. * Composed of over 30 essays written by an international array of scholars and meticulously edited by one of the best known authorities on the study of deviance * Features chapters on cutting-edge topics, such as terrorism and environmental degradation as forms of deviance * Each chapter includes a critical review of what is known about the topic, the current status of the topic, and insights about the future of the topic * Covers recent theoretical innovations in the field, including the distinction between positivist and constructionist perspectives on deviance, and the incorporation of physical appearance as a form of deviance

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118701324
• Artikelnr.: 43970593

Autorenporträt

Erich Goode is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University. He is the author of 11 books, mainly on deviance, crime, and drug use, which include Deviant Behavior (10th edition, 2015), Drugs in American Society (9th edition, 2015), and Justifiable Conduct: Self-Vindication in Memoir (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction to the Handbook

Part I Deviance: The Conceptual Foundations

1 The Sociology of Deviance: An Introduction
Erich Goode

2 Deviance and Social Control
Mathieu Deflem

3 Regulating Vice
Jim Leitzel

4 Deviant Subcultures and Lifestyles
Craig J. Forsyth

5 Positive Deviance
Druann Maria Heckert and Daniel Alex Heckert

Part II Ongoing Deviance Dynamics

6 The Process of Deviantization

Daniel Dotter

7 Changing Definitions of Deviance
John Curra

8 The Medicalization of Deviance: From Badness to Sickness
Joseph Schneider

9 Decriminalization
John Dombrink

10 What Is Homosexuality Doing in Deviance?
Jeffery P. Dennis

Part III Studying Deviance

11 Quantitative Methods in the Study of Deviance
Jeff Ackerman

12 Studying Deviance: Qualitative Methods
Richard Tewksbury

13 Explanatory Paradigms in the Study of Deviance
Robert F. Meier

Part IV Approaches, Explanations, Factors

14 Critical Criminology
Walter DeKeseredy

15 The Interactionist Approach to Deviance
Addrain Conyers and Thomas C. Calhoun

16 Gender and Deviance
Meredith G.F. Worthen and Danielle Dirks

17 Deviance and the Mass Media
David L. Altheide

Part V Individual Deviance

18 Juvenile Delinquency: Its Nature, Causes, and Control
Timothy Brezina and Robert Agnew

19 Alcohol Use as Deviance
Paul M. Roman

20 Drug Use as Deviance
Scott Akins and Clayton J. Mosher

21 Sociology and Sexual Deviance
Martin S. Weinberg and Colin J. Williams

22 Cognitive Deviance: Unconventional Beliefs
Robin D. Perrin

23 Abominations of the Body: Physical Characteristics as Deviance
Erich Goode

Part VI Institutional Deviance

24 Mental Illness as a Form of Deviance: Historical Notes and Contemporary Directions
Peter Conrad and Julia Bandini

25 Poverty and Disrepute
David L. Harvey

26 Environmental Harm as Deviance and Crime
Avi Brisman

27 Organizational Deviance: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?
Melanie Bryant

28 Marginalizing Migrants: Stigma, Racism, and Vulnerability
Dean Wilson

29 Political Deviance
Pat Lauderdale

30 Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Austin T. Turk

Part VII Deviance Futures

31 Deviance and Social Change
Nachman Ben-Yehuda

32 What's in Store for the Concept of Deviance? Reflections, Speculations, Predictions
Erich Goode