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The Trouble With Evil: Social Control at the Edge of Morality(SUNY series in Deviance and Social Control)

The Trouble With Evil: Social Control at the Edge of Morality(SUNY series in Deviance and Social Control)


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A broadly based analysis of good and evil grounded in examination of the conceptual, philosophical, and theoretical bases of the study of evil within the social sciences.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Preface 1. The Sociological Perspective on Evil 2. Evil as Experience 3. Some Realities of Social Control 4. The Primitive Witch Hunt 5. Evil and Social Control in Melanesia 6. Sorcery as a Legal Remedy 7. Conclusion References Index

About the Author :

Edwin M. Lemert is former Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Davis. He is the author of Instead of Court: Diversion in Juvenile Justice; Social Action and Legal Change; Social Pathology: A Systematic Approach to the Theory of Sociopathic Behavior; Human Deviance, Social Problems, and Social Control; and co-author of Offenders in the Community. He is the 1996 recipient of the Western Society of Criminology Paul Tappan Award.



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"Lemert's method provides two significant conclusions: evil is a special kind of anti-social act that is not subject to ordinary social controls; and sorcery has not been demonstrated to be a form of 'social control' at all, no matter how common that argument may be in the literature-certainly it is not remotely similar to law, as it is known in modern urban societies." - William G. Davis, Professor Emeritus, University of California-Davis "The book is an interesting addition to our understanding of a concept-evil-that has received relatively little attention from students of deviance. Conceptualizing evil as a product of social interaction and emergent definitional processes moves our understanding of the (highly value laden) concept of evil away from comparatively fruitless efforts to derive a more concrete operational definition." - Malcolm D. Holmes, University of Wyoming


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780791432440
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 185
  • Series Title: SUNY series in Deviance and Social Control
  • Sub Title: Social Control at the Edge of Morality
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0791432440
  • Publisher Date: 13 Feb 1997
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 263 gr


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