Investigating Deviance: An Anthology / Edition 1

by Bruce A. Jacobs, Barry Glassner

Overview

The highly readable articles in this comprehensive anthology explore the essence of deviant behavior—its construction, explanation, commission, and control. Substantive introductions to each section and to each article allow the book's component parts to stand on their own depending on instructional needs. Topic-specific Internet websites are also provided.

Bruce Jacobs has selected an eclectic cross-section of compelling readings. The book's theoretical coverage draws from classic as well as contemporary approaches (e.g., lifecourse, general strain, institutional anomie, feminist), with an emphasis on the latter. The empirical selections on forms of deviant behavior are engaging, ethnographic, and timely. Coverage includes:

* Child Prostitution
* Robbery of Drug Dealers
* Impersonal Homosexual Sex
* Internet Pornography
* Petty Shoplifting
* Eating Disorders
* Life on Death Row
* Racial Profiling
* Ritalin and the Drugging of Children
* Sex Tourism
* Athletes with Physical Disabilities
* Violence Beyond the Law
* Cyberspace Crime
* Use of Cameras, Drug Tests, and DNA Analysis to Monitor Deviants

Additional Features:

* The section on deviant identity management emphasizes the acquisition and management of stigma.
* The researching deviance section features the process by which scholars conduct deviance research (both ethnographic and survey)—as well as how they identify and infiltrate settings, negotiate dilemmas and contradictions, and secure valid data.
* The section on deviance and social control covers profiling, life sentences, judicial discretion, and surveillance.
* Gender is incorporated throughout the book as a crucial mediating variable. Feminist perspectives are included, as well as approaches that focus on masculinity and deviance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195330038
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/15/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	572
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 1.16(d)

About the Author

University of Missouri, St. Louis

University of Southern California

Table of Contents

Part I: Constructing Deviance1. Outsiders, Howard S. Becker2. Fear, the Media, and the Construction of Deviance, Barry Glassner3. On the Sociology of Deviance, Kai T. Erikson4. Defining Deviancy Down, Daniel Patrick MoynihanPart II: Explaining Deviance5. Deviance and Low Self-Control, Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi6. Deviance, Anomie, and the American Dream, Steven F. Messner and Richard Rosenfeld7. Deviance and Oppositional Culture: The Code of the Streets, Elijah Anderson8. The Theory of Differential Association, Edwin Sutherland and Donald Cressey9. General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency, Robert Agnew10. Crime and Deviance in the Lifecourse, Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub11. Techniques of Neutralization, Gresham Sykes and David Matza12. A Radical Conception of Crime and Deviance, Michael J. Lynch13. Gender, Crime, and Deviance, Kathleen Daly14. Deviance, Labeling, and Reintegrative Shaming, John BraithwaitePart III: Researching Deviance15. Studying Sex: An American Survey, Edward O. Laumann, Robert T. Michael, John Gagnon, and Stuart Michaels16. Researching Crack Dealers, Bruce A. Jacobs17. Gender and Research with the Police, Jennifer HuntPart IV: Drugs18. The Social Construction of Drugs and Drug Use, Robert F. Meier and Gilbert Geis19. Marijuana and Lifestyle: Exploring Tolerable Deviance, Andrew Hathaway20. I Take Care of My Kids: Mothering Practices of Substance-Abusing Women, Phyllis Baker and Amy Carson21. The Ethic of "Responsible Drinking", Earl Rubington22. Ritalin Ascendant, Lawrence Diller23. American Women and Smoking: 22 Million Just Don't Get It, Ann Colston WentzPart V: Violence24. Next Time She'll Be Dead: What is Domestic Violence?, Ann Jones25. Gang Violence, Scott H. Decker and Barrik Van Winkle26. Hate Crimes: The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed, Jack Levin and Jack McDevitt27. Robbing Drug Dealers: Violence Beyond the Law, Bruce A. Jacobs28. The Spectrum of Child Abuse, R. Kim OatesPart VI: Sexual Deviance29. The Social Organization of Prostitution, Robert F. Meier and Gilbert Geis30. Erotic Cyberspace: The Internet and "Logging On" to Sex, Keith F. Durkin and Clifton D. Bryant31. Men Who Have Sex with Other Men, Barry D. Adam, Alan Sears, and Glenn Schellenberg32. Turn-Ons for Money: Interactional Strategies of the Table Dancer, Carol Rambo Ronai and Carolyn Ellis33. Sex Tourism and Child Prostitution in Asia, Heather Montgomery34. Fraternities and Rape on Campus, Patricia Yancey Martin and Robert A. HummerPart VII: White Collar Deviance35. Crime in Cyberspace, Gene Stephens36. Corporate Deviance, David R. Simon37. Organized Deviance, David R. Simon and Frank E. Hagan38. Accounts of Professional Misdeeds: The Sexual Exploitation of Clients by Psychotherapists, Mark R. Pogrebin, Eric D. Poole, and Amos Martinez39. Doctor-assisted Suicide, Bonnie SteinbockPart VIII: Mental Illness40. Nowhere to go: Homelessness and Mental Illness, E. Fuller Torrey41. The Compulsion to Amputate One's Own Limbs: Apotemnophilia and Mental Disorder, Carl Elliott42. Women's Madness: Misogyny or Mental Illness?, Jane M. Ussher43. Managing "Crazy" Friends and Relatives: Accommodation Practices and Vernacular Treatments of Madness, Michael Lynch44. The Suicidal Mind: Why Do We Kill Ourselves?, Edwin S. Shneidman45. On Being Sane in Insane Places, David L. RosenhanPart IX: Stigma and Identity Management46. Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia: The Development of Deviant Identities, Penelope A. McLorg and Diane E. Taub47. Becoming a Shoplifter: The Seductions of Deviance, Jack Katz48. Stigma Management Through Participation in Sport and Physical Activity: Experiences of Male College Students with Physical Disabilities, Diane E. Taub, Elaine M. Blinde, and Kimberly R. Greer49. Women Athletes as Falsely Accused Deviants: Managing the Lesbian Stigma, Elaine M. Blinde and Diane E. Taub50. Gay and Greek: The Identity Paradox of Gay Fraternities, King-To Yeung and Mindy Stombler51. Return to Sender: Reintegrative Stigma Management Strategies of Ex-psychiatric Patients, Nancy J. Herman52. Leaving Deviance: The Case of Upper-level Drug Dealers and Smugglers, Patricia A. Adler and Peter AdlerPart X: Deviance and Social Control53. Driving While Black, Elijah Anderson54. Life on Death Row, Robert Johnson55. Race, Class, and Gender in Female Sentencing: An Ethnographic Perspective, Jody Miller56. Surveillance and Reputation in America, Steven L. Nock57. Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life, William G. Staples