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The death and resurrection of deviance : current ideas and research / edited by Michael Dellwing, Joseph A. Kotarba, Nathan W. Pino.

Deviance has long been a cornerstone of sociological inquiry, so much so that commentators have determined that it is overused, under-defined and may have run its analytical course. It has become a contested category in the last few years, and some sociologists have proclaimed the 'death of dev...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Dellwing, Michael (Editor), Kotarba, Joseph A. (Editor), Pino, Nathan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:Critical criminological perspectives.
Subjects:
Deviant behavior.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Tales of Death and Deviance; Michael Dellwing, Joseph Kotarba and Nathan Pino
  • PART I: THE DEATH OF DEVIANCE?
  • 1. The Meaning and Validity of the Death of Deviance Claim; Erich Goode
  • 2. The Critical Role of Deviance in Society; Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler
  • 3. The Deviance Bubble; Joel Best
  • 4. Expanding Deviance toward Difference: A Linguistic Approach; Michael J. Coyle
  • 5. The 'Death of Deviance' and Stagnation of Twentieth Century Criminology; Mark Horsley
  • 6. Subcultures and Deviance; J. Patrick Williams
  • PART II: PRODUCTIVE DEVIANCE
  • 7. Debating the Death of Deviance: Transgressing Extremes in Conspiracy Narratives; Daniel Dotter
  • 8. Religious Deviance; Robin D. Perrin
  • 9. The New Moral Entrepreneurs: Atheist Activism as Scripted and Performed Political Deviance; Lori L. Fazzino, Michael Ian Borer and Mohammed Abdel Haq
  • 10. The School to Prison Pipeline and the 'Death of Deviance' in the American Public School System; Scott Wm. Bowman
  • 11. For These People it is Almost Too Late: German Citizenship Education, Islam, and the Construction of Normativity and Deviance; Jessica A. Brown
  • 12. The Mass Killer's Search for Validation Through, Infamy, Media Attention, and Transcendence; Jennifer Lynn Murray
  • PART III: DOING DEVIANCE BETWEEN TEACHING AND RESEARCH
  • 13. The Didactic Relevance of the Death of Deviance Debate; Susan Day, Joseph A. Kotarba
  • 14. 'Deviance' is for Undergrads, 'Social Control' is for Grad Students; Michael Dellwing
  • 15. Deviance and Social Justice; Nathan Pino.

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