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

Downes, David M.

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'Understanding Deviance' provides an indispensable guide to the major themes and theories which have come to form the sociology of crime and deviance, from their origins in the research of the University of Chicago sociology department in the 1920s to the most recent work in cultural criminology.

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Original version: 6th edition Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. 409 pages 9780199569830
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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?

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