Includes bibliographical references (p. 604-611) and index.
Contents:
Foreword / Raymond M. Lee, Claire M. Renzetti. Problems of researching sensitive topics : an overview and introduction / 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. Online consumer misbehaviour : an application of neutralization theory / 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 / Lloyd C. Harris, Alexia Dumas. 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 ... [et. al] -- Online consumer misbehaviour : an application of neutralization theory / Lloyd C. Harris, Alexia Dumas. Racial profiling and immigration law enforcement : rounding up of usual suspects in the Latino community / 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 / Mary Romero. 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. Professional ex revisited : cessation or continuation of a deviant career? / 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 / Susan F. Sharpe, Trina L. Hope. 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.
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