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A contemporary collection of readings on deviant behavior
This user-friendly reader contains readings that have been carefully written for clarity and conciseness. All of the articles reflect current trends in the sociology of deviance. The authors examine both criminal deviance (such as robbery and white-collar crime) and noncriminal deviance (such as pornography and tattooing).
Deviance Today explores contemporary trends in the study of deviance such as the emphasis on the constructionist perspective and the greater use of ethnography.
Learning Goals
Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:
- Understand major theories in the sociology of deviance
- Explore current trends in deviant behavior
- Explore different methodologies used to gather data
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Synopsis
A contemporary collection of readings on deviant behavior
This user-friendly reader contains readings that have been carefully written for clarity and conciseness. All of the articles reflect current trends in the sociology of deviance. The authors examine both criminal deviance (such as robbery and white-collar crime) and noncriminal deviance (such as pornography and tattooing).
Deviance Today explores contemporary trends in the study of deviance such as the emphasis on the constructionist perspective and the greater use of ethnography.
Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:
- Understand major theories in the sociology of deviance
- Explore current trends in deviant behavior
- Explore different methodologies used to gather data
Note: MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearcgLab, please visit:
www.mysearchlab.com or you can purchase a valuepack of the text + MySearchLab (at no additional cost): ValuePack ISBN-10: 0205208754 / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205208753.
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Table of Contents
Deviance Today
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One
Positivist Theories
Strain and Anomie Theories
Timothy Brezina and Miranda Baumann
Control Theories
Robert Agnew
Part Two
Constructionist Theories
Labeling Theory
Mark Konty
Conflict Theory
Addrain Conyers
Feminist Theory
Julie Harms Cannon
Part Three
Physical Violence
Profiling School Shooters and Shooters’ Schools
Michael Kimmel
Robbery
Dee Wood Harper and Kelly Frailing
Child Abuse
Elizabeth Mustaine
Part Four
Substance Use and Abuse
Drugs
Erich Goode
“What’s Goin’ On?”: Illicit Drug and Alcohol Use Among College Students
Robert Jenkot
Non-Medical Use of Prescription Stimulants
Jason Ford
Part Five
Sexual Deviance
Female Pornography Use and Sexual Coercion Perpetration
Poco D. Kernsmith and Roger M. Kernsmith
The Prohibitionist Critique of Prostitution
Ronald Weitzer
Initials Exits from Street Prostitution
Sharon S. Oselin
Part Six
Physical Manifestations of Deviance
Tattooing
Joshua Adams
Self-Mutilation and Body Modification
Jimmy D. Taylor
Typologies of Teenage Suicide: Analyzing Suicide Notes through Durkheimian Categories
Richard Tewksbury, Ronald M. Holmes, and David P. Connor
Part Seven
Privileged DevianceWhite-Collar Crime Mandeep K. Dhami
White Collar Offenders and Stigma Management
John Heith Copes
Clergy Misconduct as Elite Deviance: Assessing the Problem
Anson Shupe
Part Eight
Medical Deviance
Stigma and Medical Diagnosis
Denise Copleton
Care Giving Without the Care: The Deviant Treatment of Residents in Nursing Homes
Jason S. Ulsperger and J. David Knottnerus
Obesity
Erich Goode
Part Nine
Deviant Communities
Furries and Their Communities
Jackie Eller, Andrea Eller and Zachary Santoni-Sanchez
Are You “Deaf Enough?”
Melissa Powell-Williams
Lesbian/ Queer Bathouses
Corries Hammers
Part Ten
Deviance Today
Dawn of a New Era
Keith Durkin
Terrorism
James Ross
Paranormal Beliefs as Deviance
Erich Goode