The trouble with evil : social control at the edge of morality / Edwin M. Lemert.

Edwin Lemert investigates the possibility that a consideration of evil will provide new power to explanations of deviance. He links classic studies of witchcraft and sorcery to the wider problem of social control. The search for prototypical evil (a view that Lemert rejects) turns to an investigatio...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author:	Lemert, Edwin M. (Edwin McCarthy), 1912-1996
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997.
Series:	SUNY series in deviance and social control.
Subjects:	Witchcraft > Africa. Witchcraft > Melanesia. Social control > Africa. Social control > Melanesia. Good and evil. Africa > Social conditions. Africa > Moral conditions. Melanesia > Social conditions. Melanesia > Moral conditions. Moral conditions. Social control. Social conditions. Witchcraft. Africa. Melanesia.