Understanding Deviance

A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-Breaking
6. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-956983-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 736 g

Downes and Rock's popular textbook, Understanding Deviance, provides the reader with an indispensable guide to criminological theory. It sympathetically outlines the principal theories of crime and rule-breaking, discussing them chronologically, and 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. It includes new studies in the areas of gang and subcultural theory, further discussion of post-modernism and the 'risk society', and assessment of how different approaches address the lengthy fall in crime rate across most democratic and developed societies.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate students on criminology degrees as well as those opting to study criminology on law or other social science degrees.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Downes, David

Rock, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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?

Über Autor(innen)

David Downes is Emeritus Professor of Social Administration and a member of the Mannheim Centre of Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political Science He is currently working on the causes, character and consequences of mass imprisonment in the USA, and on comparative trends in crime, inequality, the regulation of drug use, welfare services, and criminal justice.

Paul Rock is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and a member of the Mannheim Centre of Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His interests focus on the development of criminal justice policies, particularly for victims of crime, but he has also published articles on criminological theory and the history of crime.