Deviant Behavior

11. New Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-19190-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 406 Seiten, Format (B × H): 231 mm x 179 mm, Gewicht: 720 g

Deviant Behavior provides a comprehensive study of the behavior, beliefs, conditions, and reactions to deviance, giving students a better understanding of this phenomenon. Deviance is discussed from the sociological perspectives of positivism and constructionism. Readers will grasp the reason behind deviant behavior through the positivist perspective and why certain actions, beliefs, and physical characteristics are condemned through the constructionist perspective.
New to this edition:

Two chapters on crime make clearer distinctions between criminalization of behavior, vs. criminal behavior itself

More discussion of the relativity of deviance, including how murder is socially and legally constructed

Expands the notion that conspiracy theory is a form of cognitive deviance

New discussion furthers the difference between labeling theory and constructionism

New Section on environmental pollution with reference to "green criminology"

New section added on Deviance and Harm

Newsworthy new features include:

A Formerly Homeless Man Speaks Out
Victimization and Abuse
Mass Incarceration
Stop and Frisk
Missing Black Men? (with implications for families and demography)
Arrest-Incarceration Gap
Disparities in Sentencing
The End of the Crime Decline?
The Brother of a Murder Victim Speaks Out
A Tattoo Collector Gets Inked
Faculty-Student Sex
Reflections on Studying BDSM

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goode, Erich

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Brief Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments

Detailed Table of Contents

Chapter 1 An Introduction to Deviance
Chapter 2 Explaining Deviant Behavior
Chapter 3 Constructing Deviance
Chapter 4 Poverty and Disrepute
Chapter 5 Crime and Criminalization
Chapter 6 Criminal Behavior
Chapter 7 White Collar and Corporate Crime
Chapter 8 Substance Abuse
Chapter 9 Sexual Deviance
Chapter 10 Unconventional Beliefs
Chapter 11 Mental Disorder
Chapter 12 Deviant Physical Characteristics
Chapter 13 Tribal Stigma: Race, Religion, and Ethnicity
Concluding Thoughts
References

Über Autor(innen)

Erich Goode is Sociology Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University; he has taught at half-dozen universitiesand is the author of eleven books. During his career, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lady Davis Teaching Fellowship, the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the SUNY-wide Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Goode is married and lives in New York City.