Understanding Deviance

A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-Breaking
7. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-874734-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 176 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 725 g

An indispensable guide to the sociological theories behind crime, it outlines the principal theories of crime and rule-breaking, discussing them chronologically. Placing each theory in its European and North American contexts, the authors confront major criticisms that have been voiced against each theory, and construct defences where appropriate.

Thoroughly revised and updated in its 7th edition, this is the clearest and most authoritative guide to crime and deviance, written by three leading names in the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Downes, David

Rock, Paul

McLaughlin, Eugene

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Theoretical contexts: the changing nature and scope of the sociology of crime and deviance

- 2: Sources of knowledge about crime and deviance

- 3: The Chicago school

- 4: Functionalism: the Durkheimian legacy

- 5: Anomie and strain theory

- 6: Culture and subculture

- 7: Symbolic interactionism

- 8: Phenomenology

- 9: Control theories

- 10: Radical criminology

- 11: Feminist criminology

- 12: Victimology

- 13: Public criminology: theory and policy

- 14: The metamorphosis of the sociology of crime and deviance

Über Autor(innen)

David Downes is Emeritus Professor of Social Administration and a member of the Mannheim Centre of Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is currently working with Tim Newburn and Paul Rock on the official history of criminal justice policy in England and Wales 1959-1997.

Paul Rock is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and a member of the Mannheim Centre of Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is currently working with David Downes and Tim Newburn on the official history of criminal justice policy in England and Wales 1959-1997.

Eugene McLaughlin is Professor of Criminology and a member of the Department of Sociology at the City University of London. He is currently researching the significance of institutional scandals in the UK.