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Understanding deviance : a guide to the sociology of crime and rule-breaking

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  • Contributor: Rock, Paul Elliot
    Edition: 6th ed
    Date:
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    2014
    Summary:

    This popular textbook provides the reader with an indispensable guide to criminological theory. It sympathetically outlines the principal theories of crime and rule-breaking, placing them in their European and North American contexts, confronting major criticisms that have been voiced against them, and constructing defences where appropriate. The book has been thoroughly revised and brought up to date to include new issues of crime, deviance and theory in the early twenty-first century, and includes summaries of cultural criminology and new assessments of the contribution made by Gottfredson and Hirschi to control theory.

    Contents:
    • 1. Confusion and diversity
    • 2. Sources of knowledge about deviance
    • 3. The University of Chicago Sociology Department
    • 4. Functionalism, deviance, and control
    • 5. Anomie
    • 6. Culture and subculture
    • 7. Symbolic interactionism
    • 8. Phenomenology
    • 9. Control theories
    • 10. Radical criminology
    • 11. Feminist criminology
    • 12. Deviance theories and social policy
    • 13. The metamorphosis and deviance?
    Original Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011
    Language(s): English