The Social Organization of Deviants

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2484232
AutoresJoel Best (0000-0002-8943-5427, California State University, Fresno, autor de correspondencia), David F Luckenbill (Green Circle)
Año1980
Volumen28
Número1
Páginas14-31
Fecha de publicación1980-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Problems (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/800378
OpenAlexW1991846430
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas38
Referencias citadas49

In this paper, we present a framework for understanding the social organization of deviants—the patterns of relationships between deviant actors. Deviants organize in forms of varying sophistication. Beginning with the least sophisticated form, we discuss loners, colleagues, peers, mobs and formal organizations. A comparative analysis of these five forms suggests that organizational sophistication has several consequences for deviants and social control agents: it affects the complexity of deviant operations, the types of socialization and services provided to deviants, the members' involvement in deviance, and the security of the members' deviant operations. Some implications for the study of social organization are then considered

Criminology · Deviance (statistics) · Social control · Social organization · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Sophistication · Anthropology · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Psychology · Social Psychology