About the Book
Conveniently divided into five comprehensive parts, Deviance and Social Control provides readers with a selection of articles that examine core issues in the field of deviant behavior and social control. Major areas covered in the book include how individuals “become deviant,” changes in their identities as they become increasingly involved in deviance; how deviants explain or justify their behavior; the role of the mass media in framing popular impressions of deviants; social and political conflicts over deviance and over appropriate methods of suppressing or managing deviant populations; why norms and sanctions change over time, in either a more rigid or more tolerant direction; the role of others (family, friends, strangers, police, psychiatrists, etc.) in identifying individuals who are engaged in unacceptable behavior, attaching labels to them, and discriminating against them in some fashion; and ways in which deviant actors attempt to “fight back” to reject stigmatization, enhance their self-esteem, and struggle for their rights. Types of deviance examined in the book include drug use and drug dealing, corporate crime, pornography, governmental deviance, rape and other violence against women, prostitution, homosexuality, cyberdeviance, AIDS, cheating among college students, transgenders, and many others.
Table of Contents:
PART I: INTRODUCTORY ISSUESDefining DevianceIntroductionStephen Pfohl, Images of Deviance and Social ControlConstructing and Controlling DevianceIntroductionHoward S. Becker, Moral Entrepreneurs Gary T. Marx, Ironies of Social ControlPART II: THEORIES OF DEVIANCEIntroductionFunctionalist Theory Kai T. Erikson, The Sociology of DevianceMaria Elizabeth Grabe, Television News Magazines and FunctionalismSocial Disorganization TheoryRodney Stark, Deviant PlacesJames Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, Broken WindowsAnomie TheoryRobert K. Merton, Social Structure and AnomieNikos Passas, Anomie and Corporate DevianceLearning TheoryEdwin H. Sutherland, Differential AssociationHoward S. Becker, Becoming a Marijuana UserBarbara Sherman Heyl, The Training of House ProstitutesLabeling TheoryHoward S. Becker, OutsidersJohn I. Kitsuse, Societal Reaction to Deviant BehaviorWilliam B. Waegel, M. David Ermann, and Alan M. Horowitz, Labelling the CIA DeviantConflict TheoryDavid M. Gordon, Capitalism, Class, and Crime in AmericaElijah Anderson, The Police and the Black MalePatricia Yancey Martin and Robert A. Hummer, Fraternities and Rape on CampusWalter D. Connor, The Manufacture of Deviance in the Soviet PurgesPART III: RESEARCHING DEVIANCEIntroductionJoseph J. Senna and Larry J. Siegel, Measuring CrimeJeff Leen, Number Jumble Clouds Judgment of Drug WarMichael D. Smith, Improving Surveys on Violence Against WomenPART IV: INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS Deviance in the Media and on the InternetIntroductionVincent F. Sacco, Media Constructions of CrimeJoshua Gamson, Deviants on Talk ShowsKeith F. Durkin and Clifton D. Bryant, Log on to Sex: Erotic Cyberspace as a New FrontierMedicine and Psychiatric InstitutionsIntroductionPeter Conrad and Joseph W. Schneider, Medicine as an Institution of Social ControlD.L. Rosenhan, On Being Sane in Insane PlacesPolitics and the Control of Deviance IntroductionAlbert DiChiara and John F. Galliher, Politics of Marijuana DecriminalizationCarole S. Vance, The Meese Commission on the RoadRonald Weitzer, Prostitution Control in AmericaPART V: IDENTITY, INTERACTION, AND RESISTANCEBecoming Deviant: Identity and Behavioral ChangeIntroductionSheigla Murphy, Dan Waldorf, and Craig Reinarman, Drifting into Drug DealingRichard R. Troiden, Acquiring a Homosexual Identity Patricia Gagne, Richard Tewksbury, and Deanna McGaughey, Coming Out as a Transgendered PersonManaging Deviance: Passing, Disclosure, and NeutralizationIntroductionRose Weitz, Living with the Stigma of AIDSDonald L. McCabe, The Influence of Situational Ethics on Cheating Among College Students Michael L. Benson, Denying the Guilty Mind Diana Scully and Joseph Marolla, Rapists’ Vocabulary of MotiveKathleen J. Ferraro and John M. Johnson, How Women Experience BatteringFighting Back: Organized Resistance by DeviantsIntroductionRonald Weitzer, The Prostitutes' Rights CampaignMary de Young, Pedophile OrganizationsRenee R. Anspach, Political Activism among the Disabled and Mental PatientsSteven Epstein, Gay and Lesbian Movements
About the Author :
Ronald Weitzer received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985. He is currently a professor of sociology at George Washington University in Washington, DC. His research includes extensive work on police relations with minority groups in the United States, South Africa, and Northern Ireland. He is also an expert on the sex industry, and has written several articles on prostitution in the United States. He has published four books: Current Controversies in Criminology (Prentice-Hall, forthcoming 2002), Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry (Routledge 2000), Policing under Fire: Ethnic Conflict and Police-Community Relations in Northern Ireland (State University of New York Press, 1995), and Transforming Settler States: Communal Conflict and Internal Security in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe (University of California Press, 1990).
