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Deviant behavior

Goode, Erich. (Author).

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 9781138656024
  • ISBN: 113865602X
  • ISBN: 9781138191907
  • ISBN: 1138191906
  • ISBN: 9781315643632
  • ISBN: 1315643634
  • ISBN: 9781315640235
  • ISBN: 9781317276395 (ePub ebook)
  • ISBN: 9781317276401 (PDF ebook)
  • ISBN: 9781317276388 (Mobipocket ebook)
  • Physical Description: print
    xvi, 406 pages ; 23 cm
  • Edition: Eleventh edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Routledge-Taylor and Francis Group, 2016.

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General Note:
Revised edition of the author's Deviant behavior, 2014.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: Preface and acknowledgments -- Detailed table of contents -- An introduction to deviance -- Explaining deviant behavior -- Constructing deviance -- Poverty and disrepute -- Crime and criminalization -- Criminal behavior -- White collar and corporate crime -- Substance abuse -- Sexual deviance -- Unconventional beliefs -- Mental disorder -- Deviant physical characteristics -- Tribal stigma : race, religion, and ethnicity -- Concluding thoughts -- References.

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Deviant Behavior


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
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