Downes, David M.

Understanding deviance : a guide to the sociology of crime and rule-breaking / David Downes, Paul Rock. - 5th ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. - x, 374 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-355) and index.

Confusion and diversity -- Sources of knowledge about deviance -- The University of Chicago Sociology Department -- Functionalism, deviance, and control -- Anomie -- Culture and subculture -- Symbolic interactionism -- Phenomenology -- Control theories -- Radical criminology -- Feminist criminology -- Deviance theories and social policy -- The metamorphosis of deviance?

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Deviant behavior.
Crime--Sociological aspects.

HM811 / .D69 2007

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