For freshman through senior level courses in Deviance or Deviance Behavior found in departments of Sociology,
Criminal Justice, or Human Services, as well as courses in Psychology and Anthropology.
This brief, very accessible and affordable text is designed especially for today's students. It presents the key
information in a way that economizes on reading. It conveys some of the interesting and unusual things to be found
in deviance studies without massive amounts of text and intricate theoretical arguments.
Features :
Brief, accessible--Introduces students to all the basic areas of deviance in a straightforward, readable way.
Allows professors to assign additional readings at an affordable price.
Provides students with the core concepts in deviance to support other study.
Outlines theory, but avoids theoretical arguments--Covers all of the basic areas of deviance without going
into theoretical debates.
Focuses students on the basic theories and cases.
A focus on careers--Applicable to criminal justice, sociology, or human services majors who are destined for
practical careers.
Provides accurate and up-to-date insight into realistic criminal justice, sociology, and human services topics.
Interdisciplinary in nature--Easily incorporated into other curricula.
Can be utilized in psychology and anthropology courses since it illustrates psychological and biological theories
as well as the sociological theories more traditional in deviance courses.
Fair and balanced in orientation--Avoids a pure sociology approach that devotes a tremendous amount of space
to social constructionism or post-modernism.
Useful for today's students who are destined for human services careers.
New and interesting content--Chapters on Workplace, Domestic, and School Violence; Cults (includes terrorism);
Cyberdeviance; and Organizational Deviance and White Collar Crime.
Provides current, important and relevant information for today's students.
Table of Contents
Preface.
I. FOUNDATIONS OF DEVIANCE.
1. The Nature of Deviance.
2. Deviance in Pre Modern Society.
3. Classical or Deterrence Theory.
4. The Age of Positivism.
5. Modern Sociological Theories of Deviance Part 1
6. Modern Sociological Theories of Deviance Part 2.
II. PERSONAL DEVIANCE.
7. Drug and Alcohol Abuse.
8. Mental Illness.
9. Sexual Deviance.
III. SOCIAL DEVIANCE.
10. Organizational and Vocational Deviance and Crime
11. Cults, Charisma and Terrorism.
12. Domestic, School, and Workplace Violence and Abuse.
13. Cyberdeviance.
14. Crimes Against Persons and Property.
15. The Future of Deviance Studies.
