Deviance (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
112
Utgivningsdatum
2003-04-01
Upplaga
New ed
Förlag
Wadsworth Publishing
Illustrationer
illustrations
Dimensioner
233 x 165 x 8 mm
Vikt
180 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780534570019

Deviance

Career of a Concept

Häftad,  Engelska, 2003-04-01

Slutsåld

One of America's foremost experts on deviance, Joel Best, explores the history of the study of deviance in this short, highly accessible supplementary text. Joel Best covers the emergence of anomie theory in the 1950s, the rise of labeling theory in the 1960s, and the shifts in the field as it came under criticism from other theoretical perspectives.
Visa hela texten

Kundrecensioner

Har du läst boken? Sätt ditt betyg »

Fler böcker av Joel Best

Recensioner i media

1. Discovering Deviance. 2. The Rise of Labeling. 3. Labeling Under Attack. 4. Labeling's Legacy. 5. The Revival of Criminology and the Neglect of Deviance.

Övrig information

Joel Best is Professor and Chair of the University of Delaware's Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on deviance and social problems. His books include: Threatened Children (1990), Controlling Vice (1998), Random Violence (1999), and Damned Lies and Statistics (2001).

Innehållsförteckning

1. Discovering Deviance.
2. The Rise of Labeling.
3. Labeling Under Attack.
4. Labeling's Legacy.
5. The Revival of Criminology and the Neglect of Deviance.