Brian Wolf
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Wolf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolf |
| SIGNATURE | WOLF B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Idaho |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Good Trouble
This book is written in praise of the criminal; a unique kind of criminal, who is motivated not by personal gain, but ethical altruism. Deviant heroes are those individuals who violate unjust norms and laws, facing the repercussions of social control, effecting positive social change in the process. Using a method that examines how the biographies of individual deviants intersected with history, it probes how criminals and deviants have been on t…
Tasers and Community Controversy
Over the last several decades, “Tasers,” “stun guns” and other conducted energy devices (CEDs) have become a widely adopted, though publicly controversial, form of police restraint technology. While there is a growing body of research on the physiological effects of these types of weapons, less attention has been devoted to the social effects of this technology. This paper draws on in - depth interviews with a stratified random sample of police t…
Social Analysis of Security
Deviant Heroes
Sociologists usually define deviance as a fluid construct, relative to given social circumstances, and something that is neither negative nor positive in and of itself. Despite the rejection of absolutist approaches, the vast majority of texts and studies concerning deviant behavior implicitly or explicitly present deviance as either a morally bad or morally neutral behavior. Such literatures wrongly conflate deviant behavior with villainous acti…
Contentious Politics in North America
Tactical Innovation at the Point of Consumption
Dans cet article, les AA. font part de l'expansion du mouvement anti-exploitation des travailleurs aux Etats-Unis. Les AA. decrivent ici l'essor d'un mouvement qui combine defense des droits de l'homme et du consommateur. Ce mouvement combat les conditions de travail deplorables de la main d'oeuvre employee dans les pays du tiers-monde et boycotte les multinationales telles que Nike qui participent a la mondialisation de l'exploitation humaine. L…
Environmental Movement Organizations and Political Strategy
The authors introduce the study of material-organizational dependencies into research on political differences in the environmental movement. Presently, the study of disparities in the environmental movement focuses on the ideological differences among major environmental groups to the exclusion of some very glaring discrepancies in the material-organizational context of these groups. The authors present a conceptual model of organizational diffe…
Deviant Heroes
Sociologists usually define deviance as a fluid construct, relative to given social circumstances, and something that is neither negative nor positive in and of itself. Despite the rejection of absolutist approaches, the vast majority of texts and studies concerning deviant behavior implicitly or explicitly present deviance as either a morally bad or morally neutral behavior. Such literatures wrongly conflate deviant behavior with villainous acti…
Tasers and Community Controversy
Over the last several decades, “Tasers,” “stun guns” and other conducted energy devices (CEDs) have become a widely adopted, though publicly controversial, form of police restraint technology. While there is a growing body of research on the physiological effects of these types of weapons, less attention has been devoted to the social effects of this technology. This paper draws on in - depth interviews with a stratified random sample of police t…
Tactical Innovation at the Point of Consumption
Dans cet article, les AA. font part de l'expansion du mouvement anti-exploitation des travailleurs aux Etats-Unis. Les AA. decrivent ici l'essor d'un mouvement qui combine defense des droits de l'homme et du consommateur. Ce mouvement combat les conditions de travail deplorables de la main d'oeuvre employee dans les pays du tiers-monde et boycotte les multinationales telles que Nike qui participent a la mondialisation de l'exploitation humaine. L…
Environmental Movement Organizations and Political Strategy
The authors introduce the study of material-organizational dependencies into research on political differences in the environmental movement. Presently, the study of disparities in the environmental movement focuses on the ideological differences among major environmental groups to the exclusion of some very glaring discrepancies in the material-organizational context of these groups. The authors present a conceptual model of organizational diffe…
Tactical Innovation at the Point of Consumption
Dans cet article, les AA. font part de l'expansion du mouvement anti-exploitation des travailleurs aux Etats-Unis. Les AA. decrivent ici l'essor d'un mouvement qui combine defense des droits de l'homme et du consommateur. Ce mouvement combat les conditions de travail deplorables de la main d'oeuvre employee dans les pays du tiers-monde et boycotte les multinationales telles que Nike qui participent a la mondialisation de l'exploitation humaine. L…
Contentious Politics in North America
Deviant Heroes
Sociologists usually define deviance as a fluid construct, relative to given social circumstances, and something that is neither negative nor positive in and of itself. Despite the rejection of absolutist approaches, the vast majority of texts and studies concerning deviant behavior implicitly or explicitly present deviance as either a morally bad or morally neutral behavior. Such literatures wrongly conflate deviant behavior with villainous acti…
Tasers and Community Controversy
Over the last several decades, “Tasers,” “stun guns” and other conducted energy devices (CEDs) have become a widely adopted, though publicly controversial, form of police restraint technology. While there is a growing body of research on the physiological effects of these types of weapons, less attention has been devoted to the social effects of this technology. This paper draws on in - depth interviews with a stratified random sample of police t…
Social Analysis of Security
Good Trouble
This book is written in praise of the criminal; a unique kind of criminal, who is motivated not by personal gain, but ethical altruism. Deviant heroes are those individuals who violate unjust norms and laws, facing the repercussions of social control, effecting positive social change in the process. Using a method that examines how the biographies of individual deviants intersected with history, it probes how criminals and deviants have been on t…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)