PART I. CREATING DEVIANCE Conceptions, Entrepreneurs, and Power
1. Conceptions of Deviant Behavior: The Old and the New, Jack P. Gibbs
NEW! 2. Positive Deviance: A Classificatory Model, Druann Maria Heckert
3. Moral Entrepreneurs: The Creation and Enforcement of Deviant Categories, Howard S. Becker
The Production of Deviant Categories and Actors
NEW! 4. Blowing Smoke: Status Politics and the Shasta County Smoking Ban, Justin L. Tuggle and Malcolm D. Holmes
5. The Production of Deviance in Capitalist Society, Steven Spitzer
6. The Discovery of Hyperkinesis: Notes on the Medicalization of Deviant Behavior, Peter Conrad
PART II. UNDERSTANDING DEVIANCE: THEORIES AND PERSPECTIVES
The Functionalist Perspective
7. The Normal and the Pathological, Emile Durkheim
8. On the Sociology of Deviance, Kai T. Erikson
The Conflict Perspective
9. The Conflict of Conduct Norms, Thorsten Sellin
NEW! 10. A Radical Perspective on Crime, Jeffrey H. Reiman
NEW! 11. Differential Punishing of African Americans and Whites Who Possess Drugs: A Just Policy or a Continuation of the Past?, Rudolph Alexander, Jr., Jacquelyn Gyamerah
Cultural Transmission/Social Learning Theory
12. Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency, Gresham M. Sykes, David Matza
NEW! 13. The Influence of Situational Ethics on Cheating Among College Students, Donald L. McCabe
Opportunity Theory
14. Social Structure and Anomie, Robert K. Merton
15. Homeboys, Dope Fiends, Legits, and New Jacks, John M. Hagedorn
Control Theory
16. A Control Theory of Delinquency, Travis Hirschi
17. The Socially Bounded Decision Making of Persistent Property Offenders, Neal Shover, David Honaker
The Interactionist, Societal Reactions, or Labeling Perspective
18. Career Deviance, Howard S. Becker
NEW! 19. Definition and the Dramatization of Evil, Frank Tannenbaum
An Integrated Approach
NEW! 20. Commitment, Deviance, and Social Control, Jeffery T. Ulmer
PART III. BECOMING DEVIANT
Private Domains, Information Control, and Accommodation
21. Information Control and Personal Identity: The Discredited and the Discreditable, Erving Goffman
22. Tinydopers: A Case Study of Deviant Socialization, Patricia A. Adler And Peter Adler
NEW! 23. Stigma Management Among Gay/Bisexual Men with HIV/AIDS, Karolynn Siegel, Howard Lune, Ilan H. Meyer
NEW! 24. Examining the Informal Sanctioning of Deviance in a Chat Room Culture, Rhonda D. Evans
PART IV. THE PRODUCTION OF INSTITUTIONAL CAREERS AND IDENTITIES
Organizational Structures, Ideologies, Social-Control Agents, and Recruitment: The Institutional Backdrop
25. Bureaucratic Slots and Client Processing, Delos H. Kelly
NEW! 26. The Corporate Context of Private Prisons, David Shichor
27. The Social Context of Police Lying, Jennifer Hunt, Peter K. Manning
Social-Control Agents and the Application of Diagnostic Stereotypes: The Beginning Destruction of Public Identity
NEW! 28. The Epistemological Challenge of the Early Attack on Rate Construction, Troy Duster
NEW! 29. The Organizational Career of Gang Statistics: The Politics of Policing Gangs, Albert J. Meehan
NEW! 30. The Medicalization of Deviance, Richard Gosden
Social-Control Agents, Sanctioning, and the Production of Institutional Careers and Identities
NEW! 31. Criminalizing Women's Behavior, Nora S. Gustavsson, Ann E. MacEachron
NEW! 32. Medicalizing Homelessness: The Production of Self-Blame and Self-Governing within Homeless Shelters, Vincent Lyon-Callo
Managing Institutional Careers and Identities
33. The Moral Career of the Mental Patient, Erving Goffman
34. Suspended Identity: Identity Transformation in a Maximum Security Prison, Thomas J. Schmid, Richard S. Jones
PART V. BUILDING DEVIANT CAREERS AND IDENTITIES
Organizational Structures, Ideologies, and Recruitment: The Noninstitutional Backdrop
35. The Social Organization of Deviants, Joel Best, David F. Luckenbill
NEW! 36. Managing the Action: Sports Bookmakers as Entrepreneurs, Phyllis Coontz
Entering and Learning Deviant Cultures and Practices: The Building of Deviant Careers and Identities
37. Drifting into Dealing: Becoming a Cocaine Seller, Sheigla Murphy, Dan Waldorf, Craig Reinarman
38. Confronting Deadly Disease: The Drama of Identity Construction among Gay Men with AIDS, Kent L. Sandstrom
Deviant Careers and Identities: Some Additional Forms and Shapes-Peers, Gangs, and Organizations
39. Fraternities and Rape on Campus, Patricia Yancey Martin, Robert A. Hummer
40. Corporations, Organized Crime, and the Disposal of Hazardous Waste: An
Examination of the Making of a Criminogenic Regulatory Structure, Andrew Szasz
Managing Deviant Careers and Identities
NEW! 41. Is the Street Child Phenomenon Synonymous with Deviant Behavior?, Johann Leroux, Cheryl Sylvia Smith
NEW! 42. Damaged Goods: Women Managing the Stigma of STDs, Adina Nack
PART VI. CHANGING DEVIANCE
Transforming Deviance: Conceptions, Actors and Organizations
43. Reform the Law: Decriminalization, Samuel Walker
NEW! 44. The Professional ex-: An Alternative for Exiting the Deviant Career, J. David Brown
NEW! 45. Race and Policing, Jim Leitzel