Understanding deviance : a guide to the sociology of crime and rule-breaking / David Downes, Paul Rock.

Author/creator Downes, David M.
Other author Rock, Paul Elliott.
Format Book
Edition5th ed.
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Descriptionx, 374 pages ; 25 cm
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Subjects

Contents 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?
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [327]-355) and index.
LCCN 2006033910
ISBN0199278288
ISBN9780199278282