Publisher's Synopsis
Deviance: Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries draws on up-to-date scholarship across a wide spectrum of deviance categories, providing a symbolic interactionist analysis of the deviance process. The book addresses positivistic theories of deviant behavior within a description of the deviance process that encompasses the work of deviance claims-makers, rule-breakers, and social control agents.
Students:
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Students:
- are introduced to the sociology of deviance
- learn to analyze several kinds of criminal deviance that involve unwilling victims-such as murder, rape, street-level property crime, and white-collar crime
- learn to examine several categories of "lifestyle" and "status" deviance
- develop skills for critical analysis of criminal justice and social policies
Instructor Resources are available to easily help with lecture and exam preparation.
