Readings in Deviant Behavior

<>This collection of diverse readings represents the full range of deviance sociology, dealing with many different theories as well as data collected via different research methodologies.

Designed for use as either a main text or a supplement, Readings in Deviant Behavior includes selections with high student-appeal. All of the readings have been carefully edited for clarity and conciseness to ensure that they are enjoyable and useful in helping students learn. The fifth edition features many new articles that reflect current trends, including those dealing with non-criminal deviance as well as those that emphasize the constructionist perspective.

Introduction

Part One: Defining and Researching Deviance

1. Images of Deviance

Stephen Pfohl

2. Defining Deviance Down

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

3. Strategies for Researching Street Deviance

Leon Anderson and Thomas C. Calhoun

4. Pleasures and Perils in Deviance Research

Erich Goode

Part Two: Positivist Theories

5. Anomie-Strain Theory

Robert Merton

6. Differential Association Theory

Edwin H. Sutherland and Donald R. Cressey

7. Control Theory

Travis Hirschi

8. Shaming Theory

John Braithwaite

Part Three: Constructionist Theories

9. Labeling Theory

Howard S. Becker

10. Phenomenological Theory

Jack Katz

11. Conflict Theory

Richard Quinney

12. Feminist Theory

Kathleen Daly

13. Postmodernist Theory

David O. Friedrichs and Jessica Friedrichs

Part Four: Physical Violence

14. Suicide Bombing: The Power of the Powerless

Christoper Reuter

15. Serial Murder: Popular Myths and Empirical Realities

James Alan Fox and Jack Levin

16. What Triggers School Shootings?

Matthew S. Kimmel and Matthew Mahler

17. “I Hope Someone Murders Your Mother!”: Extreme Support for the Death Penalty

Margaret Vandiver, David J. Giacopassi, and Peter R. Gathje

Part Five: Intimate Violence

18. Tenured and Battered

Madeline Bates

19. Intimate Stalking: Characteristics and Consequences

Jennifer L. Dunn

20. Child-to-Mother Violence

Debra Jackson

21. How Child Molesters Explain Their Deviance

Louanne Lawson

Part Six: Self-Destructive Deviance

22. The Desire for Death

Thomas Joiner

23. Self-Injurers as a “Lonely Crowd”

24. Being Sane in Insane Places

David L. Rosenhan

25. The Emergence of Hyperactive Adults as Abnormal

Peter Conrad and Deborah Potter

Part Seven: Victims of Stima

26. Managing the Stigma of Personal Bankruptcy

Deborah Thorne and Leon Anderson

27. The Stigma of Obesity

Erich Goode

28. What Is It Like to Be a Rural Lesbian?

Maragaret Cooper

29. “You’re Not a Retard, You’re Just Wise”

Steven J. Taylor

Part Eight: Heterosexual Deviance

30. The Globalization of Sex Tourism

Nancy A. Wonders and Raymond Michalowski

31. Flawed Theory and Method in Studies of Prostitution

Ronald Weitzer

32. Exotic Dancers: “Where Am I Going to Stop?”

Jennifer K. Wesely

33. “Everyone Knows Who the Sluts Are”: How Young Women Get Around the Stigma

Jennifer L. Dunn

Part Nine: Drug Use

34. Binge Drinking on College Campus

Keith F. Durkin, Scott E. Wolfe, and Kara Lewis

35. Predictors of Smoking Among College Students

Karen M. Emmons, Henry Wechsler, George Dowdall, and Melissa Abraham

36. OxyContin: A Prescription for Disaster

James A. Inciardi and Jennifer L. Goode

37. The Morphing Drug Scene on Campus

Barrett Seaman

Part Ten: Internet Deviance

38. Child Porn on the Net

Ethel Quayle and Max Taylor

39. Online Dating: “I’m Dysfunctional, You’re Dysfunctional”

Andrea Orr

40. Online Boys: Male-for-Male Internet Escorts

Matthew V. Pruitt

41. Techniques of Social Engineering

Kevin D. Mitnik and William L. Simon

Part Eleven: Privileged Deviance

42. Criminal Telemarketing: A Profession on the Line

Neal Shover, Glenn S. Coffey, and Dick Hobbs

43. The Neutralization of Professional Deviance among Veterinarians

DeAnn M. Kalich

44. Social Causes of Political Corruption

Xiaohui Xin and Thomas K. Rudel

45. Enron: Organizational Rituals as Deviance

Part Twelve: Underprivileged Deviance

46. Shoplifters: “The Devil Made Me Do It”

Paul Cromwell and Quint Thurman

47. Burglary: The Offender’s Perspective

Paul Cromwell

48. The Immediate Experience of Carjacking

Bruce A. Jacobs, Volkan Topalli, and Richard Wright

49. A Sociological Analysis of Animal Cruelty

Clifton P. Flynn

Part Thirteen: Controlling Deviance

50. How Social Science Can Reduce Terrorism

Scott L. Plous and Philip G. Zimbardo

51. Overcoming Cybercon

Lea Goldman

52. A New Way of Fighting the War on Drugs

Erich Goode

53. Everyday Surveillance in Postmodern Society

William G. Staples