Deviance Today Plus MySearchLab with eText -- Access Card Package

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Table of Contents:
1) Brief Table of Contents 2) Full Table of Contents 1) Brief Table of Contents   Part One: Positivist Theories Part Two: Constructionist Theories Part Three: Physical Violence Part Four: Substance Use and Abuse Part Five: Sexual Deviance Part Six: Physical Manifestations of Deviance Part Seven: Elite Deviance Part Eight: Medical Deviance Part Nine: Deviant Communities Part Ten: Emergent Deviance   2) Full Table of Contents   Part 1: Positivist Theories Article 1: Strain and Anomie Theories--Timothy Brezina and Miranda Baumann Article 2: Control Theories of Deviance--Robert Agnew   Part 2: Constructionist Theories Article 3: Labeling--Mark Konty Article 4: Conflict Theory: The Ongoing Battle--Addrain Conyers Article 5: Feminism and Deviance--Julie Ann Harms Cannon   Part 3: Physical Violence Article 6: Robbery--Dee Wood Harper and Kelly Frailing Article 7: Child Abuse--Elizabeth Ehrhardt Mustaine   Part 4: Substance Use and Abuse Article 8: Drug Use as Deviant Behavior--Erich Goode Article 9: “What’s Goin’ On?”: Illicit Drug and Alcohol Use among College Students--Robert B. Jenkot Article 10: Academic Strain and Prescription Stimulant Misuse among College Students--Jason A. Ford and Ryan D. Schroeder   Part 5: Sexual Deviance Article 11: Female Pornography Use and Sexual Coercion Perpetration--Poco D. Kernsmith and Roger M. Kernsmith Article 12: The Prohibitionist Critique of Prostitution--Ronald Weitzer Article 13: Exiting Street Prostitution: A Combination of Internal and External Factors--Sharon S. Oselin Part 6: Physical Manifestations of Deviance Article 14: The Relationship between Tattooing and Deviance in Contemporary Society--Joshua Adams Article 15: Self-Mutilation and Body Modification--Jimmy D. Taylor Article 16: Typologies of Teenage Suicide: Analyzing Suicide Notes through Durkheimian Categories-- Richard Tewksbury, Ronald M. Holmes and David Patrick Connor   Part 7:  Elite Deviance Article 17: White-Collar Crime--Mandeep K. Dhami Article 18:  How Men and Women Avoid the Stigma of White-Collar Crime--Paul M. Klenowski, Heith Copes, Christopher Mullins and Lynne Vieraitis Article 19: Clergy Misconduct as Elite Deviance: Assessing the Problem--Anson Shupe   Part 8: Medical Deviance Article 20: Diagnosis as Stigma Management: The Case of Highly Stigmatized Gastrointestinal Symptoms of Celiac Disease--Denise A. Copelton Article 21: Care Giving without the Care: The Deviant Treatment of Residents in Nursing Homes--Jason S. Ulsperger and J. David Knottnerus Article 22: The Stigma of Obesity Erich Goode   Part 9: Deviant Communities Article 23: Furries and Their Communities--Jackie Eller, A. R. Eller and Zachary Santoni-Sanchez Article 24: Are You “Deaf Enough?”--Melissa Powell-Williams Article 25: Lesbian/Queer Bathhouse Culture and the Organization of (Im)Personal Sex--Corie Hammers   Part 10: Emergent Deviance Article 26: The Dawn of a New Era: Renewed Prospects for the Sociology of Deviance in the Internet Age--Keith F. Durkin Article 27: Paranormal Beliefs as Deviance--Erich Goode Article 28: Conceptualizing the Criminological Problem of Terrorism--James Ross