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Deviance and social control : a sociological perspective /

Deviance and Social Control: A Sociological Perspective serves as a guide to students delving into the fascinating world of deviance for the first time. This text offers a clear overview of issues and perspectives in the field as well as introductions to classic and current academic literature. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Inderbitzin, Michelle Lee
Other Authors: Bates, Kristin Ann, Gainey, Randy R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, [2013]
Subjects:
Deviant behavior.
Social control.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Howard S. Becker
  • Introduction to the study of social control. Introduction to deviance. Conceptions of deviance
  • How do you define deviance?
  • Sociological imagination
  • Deviance in popular culture
  • Importance of theory
  • Studies in deviance
  • Readings. Body ritual among the nacirema / Horace Miner
  • Mystification of social deviance / Stuart L. Hills
  • Criminology and study of deviance / James F. Short, Jr., Robert F. Meier
  • Status, deviance, and sanctions : a critical review / Ralph Wahrman
  • Diversity of deviance. Deviance and its varied forms
  • Thinking like a sociologist : strict conformity as deviance
  • Physical deviance and appearance : ideals of beauty and everyone else
  • Deviance in popular culture
  • Relationships and deviance
  • Deviance in cyberspace : making up the norms as we go
  • Studies in deviance
  • Elite deviance, corporate deviance, workplace misconduct
  • Positive deviance
  • Readings. "Simmie" side of life : old order Amish youths' affective response to culturally prescribed deviance / Denise M. Reiling
  • Nonsuicidal self injury among nonclinical college women : lessons from Foucault / Efrosini Kokaliari, Joan Berzoff
  • Corporate transgressions through moral disengagement / Albert Bandura, Gian-Vittorio Caprara, Laszlo Zsolnai
  • Researching deviance. Methodological approaches to studying deviance
  • Experimental strategies in the study of deviance
  • Deviance in popular culture. Large scale survey research
  • Field research : pure observer to full participant
  • Studies in deviance
  • Content analysis
  • Secondary data sources. Uniform crime report
  • Substance abuse and mental health services administration
  • Monitoring the future
  • Archived data : inter university consortium for political and social research
  • Readings. Bullies move beyond the schoolyard : a preliminary look at cyberbullying / Justin W. Patchin, Sameer Hinduja
  • "They must be crazy" : some of the difficulties in researching "cults" / Marybeth Ayella
  • Problems of researching sensitive topics : an overview and introduction / Raymond M. Lee, Claire M. Renzetti.
  • Traditional approaches to studying deviance. Anomie/strain theory. Emile Durkheim and anomie
  • Robert Merton and adaptations to anomie/strain
  • Mertons' adaptations to anomie
  • Deviance in popular culture. Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin, differential opportunity
  • Robert Agnew : general strain theory
  • Studies in deviance. Steven Messner and Richard Rosenfeld : crime and the American dream : institutional anomie theory
  • Contemporary/empirical studies in the anomie and strain tradition. Anomie and abuse at Abu Ghraib
  • American dream and incarcerated young men
  • Institutional anomie theory and student cheating
  • Critiques of anomie and strain theories
  • Readings. Social structure and anomie / Robert K. Merton
  • Durkheim's concept of anomie and the abuse at Abu Ghraib / Stjepan G. Mestrovic, Ronald Lorenzo
  • Maximizer : clarifying Merton's theories of anomie and strain / daniel S. Murphy, Mathew B. Robinson
  • Social disorganization theory. History and early work on social disorganization theory
  • Shaw and McKay study of juvenile delinquency and urban areas
  • Deviance in popular culture. Rebirth of social disorganization theory
  • Studies in deviance. More theoretical and empirical advances and divergences : social and physical disorder collective efficacy
  • Readings. Neighborhood social disorganization as a cofactor in violence among people with mental disorders / Eric Silver
  • Physical deterioration, disorder, and crime / Timothy C. O'Shea
  • Perceived neighborhood social disorder and attitudes toward reporting domestic violence against women / Enrique Gracia, Juan Herrero
  • Differential association and social learning theory. Edwin Sutherland and differential association
  • Deviance and popular culture. Akers's social learning theory
  • Social structure and social learning
  • Studies in deviance. Research on differential association and social learning
  • Some limitations of differential association and social learning theories
  • Readings. Social learning theory and partner violence : a research note / Christine Sellers, John K. Cochran, Kathryn A. Branch
  • Social learning theory analysis of computer crime among college students / William F. Skinner, Anne M. Fream
  • Liquor is quicker : gender and social learning among college students / Lonn Lanza-Kaduce, Michael Capece, Helena Alden
  • Social control theories of deviance. Classical social control theory. Nye
  • Hirschi
  • Techniques of neutralization
  • Deviance in popular culture. Power control theory
  • Theory of self control
  • Life course theory
  • Studies in deviance. Empirical studies
  • Critiques of social control theory
  • readings. Social control, delinquency, and victimization among Kibbutz adolescents / Ben-Zion Cohen, Ruth Zeira
  • Truancy in late elementary and early secondary education : the influence of social bonds and self control / René Veenstra [and others]
  • Online consumer misbehaviour : an application of neutralization theory / Lloyd C. Harris, Alexia Dumas.
  • Social constructionist approaches to studying deviance. Labeling theory. Theoretical background
  • How the labeling process works
  • Deviance in popular culture. Labeling and mental illness
  • Labeling and delinquency
  • Contemporary theoretical and empirical studies in labeling. Braithwaite (1989) : Crime, shame and reintegration
  • Matsueda (1992) : "Reflected appraisals, parental labeling, and delinquency"
  • Davies and Tanner (2003) : "The long arm of the law : effects of labeling on employment"
  • Studies in deviance. Impact of labeling theory
  • Readings. Saints and the roughnecks / William J. Chambliss
  • On being sane in insane places / David L. Rosehan
  • "Introduction." Our guys : the Glen Ridge rape and the secret life of the perfect suburb / Bernard Lefkowitz
  • Marxist/conflict theories of deviance. Marxist theory. Conflict
  • Dialectical materialism
  • Marxism and revolution
  • Marxism and deviance
  • Instrumental and structural Marxism and the law
  • Marxism theory of deviance
  • Deviance in popular culture. Gusfield
  • Kitsuse and Spector
  • Vold
  • Turk
  • Quinney
  • Studies in deviance. Chambliss
  • Critiques of Marxism and conflict theory
  • Readings. Communist Manifesto / Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
  • Spawn of slavery : the convict lease system in the south / W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Racial profiling by store clerks and personnel in retail establishments : an exploration of "shopping while Black" / Shaun L. Gabbidon
  • Violent police citizen encounters : an analysis of major newspaper accounts / Kim Michelle Lersch, Joe R. Feagin
  • Critical theories of deviance. Peacemaking
  • Peacemaking and homelessness
  • Deviance in popular culture. Feminist criminology
  • Feminism and homelessness
  • Studies in deviance. Critical race theory and homelessness
  • Readings. Refections on women's crime and mothers in prison : a peacemaking approach / Polly F. Radosh
  • "But sometimes I think : they put themselves in the situation" : exploring blame and responsibility in interpersonal violence / Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Karen J. Morgan
  • Racial profiling and immigration law enforcement : rounding up of usual suspects in the Latino community / Mary Romero.
  • Responses to deviance. Social control of deviance. Medicalization of deviant behavior
  • Policing, supervision, and the impact of incarceration on disadvantaged
  • Populations and communities
  • Deviance in popular culture. Total institutions
  • Correctional facilities and the purposes of punishment
  • Gresham Sykes and the pains of imprisonment
  • Juvenile correctional facilities
  • Studies in deviance. Reentry : challenges in returning to the community after time in an institution
  • Felon disenfranchisement
  • Public fear and social control : the case of sex offenders
  • Collateral consequences : effects on communities and families
  • Readings. On the run : wanted men in a Philadelphia ghetto / Alice Goffman
  • Lessons from a juvenile training school : survival and growth / Michelle Inderbitzin
  • Walking the talk? What employers say versus what they do / Devah Pager, Lincoln Quillian
  • Deviant careers and career deviance. Criminal careers and career criminals
  • Deviance in popular culture. Getting into deviance
  • Risk and protective factors for onset
  • Maintaining a deviant careers: living the life
  • Studies in deviance. Getting out of the game : desistance from career deviance
  • Readings. Fifth element : social class and the sociology of anorexia / Muriel Darmon
  • Professional ex revisited : cessation or continuation of a deviant career? / Susan F. Sharpe, Trina L. Hope.