Understanding Deviance

TRAMA

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.

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

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 of Deviance?

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199278282
• Dimensioni: 246x171 mm.
• Formato: Paperback
• Pagine Arabe: 384