Social Deviance

(NOTE: * Readings new to this edition are bolded.) I. INTRODUCTION. Moral Entrepreneurs: The Creation and Enforcement of Deviant Categories, Howard S. Becker. Ironies of Social Control: Authorities as Contributors to Deviance Through Escalation, Nonenforcement, and Covert Facilitation, Gary T. Marx. The Discovery of Child Abuse, Stephen J. Pfohl. II. THEORIES. Functionalism, Anomie, and Strain. The Normal and the Pathological, Emile Durkheim. Social Structure and Anomie, Robert K. Merton. Illegitimate Means and Delinquent Subcultures, Richard A. Cloward and Lloyd E. Ohlin. *A General Strain Theory of Community Differences in Rates, Robert Agnew. Symbolic Interactionalism/Labeling. The Social Self, Charles Horton Cooley. Primary and Secondary Deviation, Edwin M. Lemert. Stigma and Social Identity, Erving Goffman. On Behalf of Labeling Theory, Erich Goode. Conflict Theory. Toward a Marxian Theory of Deviance, Steven Spitzer. The Poverty of the Sociology of Deviance: Nuts, Sluts, and Perverts, Alexander Liazos. Learning. Self-Control Theory. *Low Self-Control and Crime, Michael R. Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi. *On the Absence of Self-Control as the Basis for a General Theory of Crime: A Critique, Gilbert Geis. Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency, Gresham M. Sykes and David Matza. Becoming a Marihuana User, Howard S. Becker. Differential Association, Edwin H. Sutherland. Differential Identification, Daniel Glaser. Feminism. Girls' and Woman's Place: Toward a Feminist Model of Female Delinquency, Meda Chesney-Lind. On the Backs of Working Prostitutes: Feminist Theory and Prostitution Policy, Annette Jolin. Appearance and Delinquency: A Research Note, Jill Leslie Rosenbaum and Meda Chesney-Lind. Identity, Strategy, and Feminist Politics: Clemency for Battered Women Who Kill, Patricia Gagne. III. DEVIANT BEHAVIORS. Alcohol and Drug Use. Moral Passage: The Symbolic Process in Public Designations of Deviance, Joseph R. Gusfield. Marihuana Use and Social Control, Howard S. Becker. Deviance as a Situated Phenomenon: Variations in the Social Interpretation of Marihuana and Alcohol Use, James D. Orcutt. Sexual Deviance. The Madam as Teacher: The Training of House Prostitutes, Barbara Sherman Heyl. Tearoom Trade, Laud Humphreys. Convicted Rapists' Vocabulary of Motive: Excuses and Justifications, Diana Scully and Joseph Marolla. Topless Dancers: Managing Stigma in a Deviant Occupation, William E. Thompson and Jackie L. Harred. *From Sex as a Sin to Sex as Work: COYOTE and the Reorganization of Prostitution as a Social Problem, Valerie Jenness. *Bodies, Borders, and Sex Tourism in a Globalized World: A Tale of Two Cities--Amsterdam and Havana, Nancy A. Wonders and Raymond Michalowski. Common and Social Control. The Function of Humor for Prison Inmates, Charles M. Terry. Incarceration as a Deviant Form of Social Control, Henry N. Pontell and Wayne N. Welsh. The Behavior of the Systematic Check Forger, Edwin M. Lemert. Normal Crimes: Sociological Features of the Penal Code in a Public Defender Office, David Sudnow. and Corporate Crime. Is White-Collar Crime Crime?, Edwin H. Sutherland. Medical Criminals: Physician Fraud in Medicaid, Paul Jesilow, Henry N. Pontell, and Gilbert Geis. in the Savings and Loan Scandal, Henry N. Pontell and Kitty Calavita. Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in a Crime, Michael L. Benson. Computer Crime: Hackers, Phreaks, and Cyberpunks, Stephen M. Rosoff, Henry N. Pontell, and Robert Tillman. Mental Disorder. On Being Sane in Insane Places, D.L. Rosenhan. The Moral Career of the Mental Patient, Erving Goffman. From Witchcraft to Drugcraft: Biochemistry as Mythology, Ronny E. Turner and Charles Edgley

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