Understanding Deviance is an essential guide to criminological theory framed in a Canadian context. Prominent theorists such as Durkheim, Merton, and Thrasher are used to highlight the roots of the discipline, while the likes of Cicourel, Matza and Garland show how early approaches can be revised for the present-day. Some of the topics covered include juvenile deviance, street crime, aboriginal poverty, global capitalism, environmental crime, and living in a risk society. To ensure a balanced perspective, the major sociological theories of deviance are coupled with any important criticisms that have been voiced against them. Critical thinking questions and other pedagogical features showcase interesting issues that reflect the complex character of deviance in the modern world and act as a springboard for student exploration. This text offers students and instructors alike an excellent resource for studying deviance from a fresh new standpoint.

Understanding Deviance: First Canadian Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Downes, David

Rock, Paul

McCormick, Chris

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Contrasts in Tolerance: Post-war Penal Policy in The Netherlands and England and Wales (Oxford Socio-Legal Studies)

The Dutch penal system has for many years been held up to the world for its humane and enlightened approach to the criminal offender. Providing an eye-opening examination of both the policy and practice of the Dutch prison system, David Downs includes a fascinating comparison with prison systems in England and Wales.

Contrasts in Tolerance: Post-war Penal Policy in the Netherlands and England and Wales (Oxford Socio-Legal Studies)

History

Americas

The Dutch penal system has for many years been held up to the world for its humane and enlightened approach to the criminal offender. Providing an eye-opening examination of both the policy and practice of the Dutch prison system, Downs includes a fascinating comparison with prison systems in England and Wales.

Clarendon Press

In Understanding Deviance, Seventh Edition, leading experts David Downes, Paul Rock, and Eugene McLaughlin examine the major sociological theories behind crime and deviance, covering their development, recent research, and varying perspectives on their explanations of criminality. The authors discuss key debates in depth, challenging students to question assumptions and explore new avenues of scholarship. An extensive bibliography provides references to a wide range of both classic and lesser-known texts.

Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-Breaking

McLaughlin, Eugene

Understanding deviance: A guide to the sociology of crime and rule-breaking

This completely revised and updated text is a accessible review of the major sociological theories of crime, delinquency, social deviance, and social control. The book moves chronologically from the "Chicago School" of the 1920s to contemporary work on "Left Realism" and feminist criminology. Also covered are functionalism, anomie, subculture theory, symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, control theories, and radical criminology.

Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule Breaking

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

This book is a straightforward guide to the major European and American sociological theories of crime, delinquency, social deviance, and social control. The authors present chronological descriptions of functionalism, anomie, subculture theory, symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, control theories, and radical criminology, with discussion of variant theories and the relation of theories of crime to social policy. Extensively revised and updated, this new edition includes an additional chapter on feminist criminology.

This book is a straightforward guide to the major European and American sociological theories of crime, delinquency, social deviance, and social control. The authors present chronological descriptions of functionalism, anomie, subculture theory, symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, control theories, and radical criminology, with discussion of variant theories and the relation of theories of crime to social policy. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated, and includes a new chapter on feminist criminology.

This completely revised and updated text is a accessible review of the major sociological theories of crime, delinquency, social deviance, and social control. It moves chronologically from the "Chicago School" of the 1920s to contemporary work on "Left Realism" and feminist criminology. Also covered are functionalism, anomie, subculture theory, symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, control theories, and radical criminology.

This is the new edition of the popular textbook, Understanding Deviance, which guides the new student through the major sociological theories of crime, deviance and control. It offers an in-depth discussion of all the prominent theories of deviance, examining significant frameworks of the sub-discipline; from the early work of the University of Chicago in the 1920s, through issues such as functionalism and symbolic interactionism, and brings the reader fully up to date with a thorough treatment of Left Realism and 'third way' policies under New Labour.

This popular textbook provides the reader with an indispensable guide to criminological theory. It sympathetically outlines the principal theories of crime and rule-breaking, placing them in their European and North American contexts, confronting major criticisms that have been voiced against them, and constructing defences where appropriate. The book has been thoroughly revised and brought up to date to include new issues of crime, deviance and theory in the early twenty-first century, and includes summaries of cultural criminology and new assessments of the contribution made by Gottfredson and Hirschi to control theory.

Understanding Deviance

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Downes, David. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Downes, David

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Downes, David. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Understanding Deviance: First Canadian Edition

Contrasts in Tolerance: Post-war Penal Policy in the Netherlands and England and Wales (Oxford Socio-Legal Studies)

Contrasts in Tolerance: Post-war Penal Policy in The Netherlands and England and Wales (Oxford Socio-Legal Studies)

Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-Breaking

Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule Breaking

Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-Breaking

Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-Breaking

Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule Breaking

Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule Breaking

Understanding Deviance