Deviant Behavior

Politics & Social Sciences

Rock, Paul

Social Sciences

Humanities Pr

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

Downes, David

McCormick, Chris

Oxford University Press

This book examines the evolution of Government policies toward victims of crime in the United Kingdom, and follows the author's View from the Shadows, which detailed official responses to the victims' movement in Canada. It attempts a fourfold task: to show how central institutions fostered what the Home Office came to regard as significant policies for victims of crime in England and Wales; to use those examples of policy-making to scout the topography of the criminal justice system; to make comparisons between the system and its Canadian counterpart; and, above all, to give the origins and early history of the National Association of Victims Support schemes. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of sociology, criminology, social behavior, social institutions and social administration.

Helping Victims of Crime: The Home Office and the Rise of Victim Support in England and Wales (Oxford Socio-Legal Studies)

Reference

The first ethnographic study of a Crown Court Centre, this book describes the origins and early history of a pioneering project to support victims and prosecution witnesses appearing before the court--the Witness Support Project. Paul Rock analyzes the major divide which exists in the life of the court between professional insiders and public outsiders. He provides details of how this division is built into court architecture, administration, and social relations, and examines how it stems from the preoccupation of court officials with the control of knowledge, public order, and emotion.

The Social World of an English Crown Court: Witness and Professionals in the Crown Court Centre at Wood Green (Oxford Socio-Legal Studies)

Criminal Law

Clarendon Press

The rebuilding of Holloway Prison in Britain, announced in 1968, was intended to be of enormous significance for the treatment and therapeutic rehabilitation of female inmates. Reconstruction began in 1970, but the new prison was not completed until 1985. By this time, penal ideologies had changed, and the Prison Department had revised its conception of women's criminality. The new prison became a place of conventional discipline and containment, and the problems which ensued led to Holloway being identified as a public and political scandal. Using original documents and extensive interviews, this work traces the genesis and consequences of the decision to rebuild England's major prison for women, and shows how the experience at Holloway reflects shifting attitudes towards female criminals, and the relationships among penal ideology, architecture, control, and behavior in a penal institution.

Reconstructing a Women's Prison: The Holloway Redevelopment Project, 1968-88 (Clarendon Studies in Criminology)

After Homicide describes the collective responses of bereaved people to the aftermath of violent death, a subject not dealt with in any detail in the literature that is currently available. The book concentrates particularly on the birth, development and organization of the self help and campaigning groups that emerged in the last decade.

After Homicide: Practical and Political Responses to Bereavement (Clarendon Studies in Criminology)

Parenting & Relationships

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.

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Deviant Behavior

Understanding Deviance: First Canadian Edition

Helping Victims of Crime: The Home Office and the Rise of Victim Support in England and Wales (Oxford Socio-Legal Studies)

The Social World of an English Crown Court: Witness and Professionals in the Crown Court Centre at Wood Green (Oxford Socio-Legal Studies)

Reconstructing a Women's Prison: The Holloway Redevelopment Project, 1968-88 (Clarendon Studies in Criminology)

After Homicide: Practical and Political Responses to Bereavement (Clarendon Studies in Criminology)

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