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Deviance

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ISBN-10: 0024044121

ISBN-13: 9780024044129

Edition: 6th 1996

Authors: Rubington

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A revised reader which presents the interactionist approach to the study of deviance, this book contains a comprehensive selection of texts which synthesize the issue. This edition includes 14 new contributions.
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Book details

List price: $42.00
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 7.09" wide x 9.06" long
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Preface
General Introduction
The Process of Social Typing
Outsiders
Societal Reaction to Deviant Behavior
Notes on the Sociology of Deviance
Accommodation to Deviance
The Psychological Meaning of Mental Illness in the Family
Accommodation to Madness
The Adjustment of the Family to the Crisis of Alcoholism
The Cultural Context
Labeling the Mentally Retarded
The Medicalization of Deviance in American Culture
The Social Constitution of Drug Scares
The Role of Third Parties
Stranger Intervention into Child Punishment in Public Places
Paranoia and the Dynamics of Exclusion
The Moral Career of the Mental Patient
Help Agencies and Their Theories
The Making of Blind Men
Emergency Department Responses to Battered Women
Techniques for Labeling Child Abusers in Official Documents
Police Work
Case Routinization in Investigative Police Work
Normal Force
Narcotics Enforcement in a Canadian City
The Deviant in Court
Normal Crimes
Sexual Assault
Probation Officer-Defendant Negotiations
The Effects of Contact With Control Agents
Being Sane in Insane Places
The Saints and the Roughnecks
Legal Stigma
The Rise and Nature of Deviant Subcultures
Theory of Deviant Subcultures
The Nature of Deviant Subcultures
'Mixed Nutters,' 'Looney Tuners,' and 'Daffy Ducks'
Getting Into Deviant Subcultures
Becoming a Nudist
Getting into Gangs
Conversion to the Doomsday Cult
Learning the Culture
The Training of House Prostitutes
The Nudist Management of Respectability
The Facts of Life About LSD
Subcultural Variations
A Typology of Heroin Addicts
Outsiders in a Hearing World
Prostitution and Crack-House Sex
Acquiring a Deviant Identity
Becoming Bisexual
Getting a Tattoo
Identity and the Shoplifter
Managing Deviant Identity
Stutterers' Practices
Rapists' Vocabulary of Motives
The Social Integration of Queers and Peers
Divorce and Stigma
Transforming Deviant Identity
Delabeling, Relabeling, and Alcoholics Anonymous
The Professional Ex-: An Alternative for Exiting the Deviant Career
The Later Stages of Property Offender Careers