Deviance

Deviance

Resources

See Also

  • Law Dictionaries.
  • Crime Causation: Sociological Theories; Criminology: Modern Controversies; Delinquent and Criminal Subcultures.

    Crime and Criminology; Justice, Social; Labeling Theory; Power

    CAREER; CRIME; DEVIANCE AMPLIFICATION; DEVIANCE DISAVOWAL; SOCIAL CAPITAL.

  • Further Reading

    Agnew, Robert. “Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency.” Criminology 30 (1992): 47-87.

    Akers, Ronald L. Deviant Behavior: A Social Learning Approach. 3d ed. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1985.

    Bader, Chris; Becker, Paul J.; and Desmond, Scott. “Reclaiming Deviance as a Unique Course from Criminology.” Teaching Sociology 24 (1996): 316-320.

    Becker, Howard S. Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance. New York: Free Press, 1963.

    Bonger, William Adrian. Criminality and Economic Conditions. Translated by H. P. Horton. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1916.

    Braithwaite, John. Crime, Shame, and Reintegration. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

    Cohen, Albert K. Deviance and Control. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1966.

    . “The Elasticity of Evil: Changes in the Social Definition of Deviance.” Occasional paper #7, Oxford University Penal Research Unit. Oxford, U.K.: Basil Blackwell, 1974.

    Conger, Rand D., and Simons, Ronald L. “Life-course Contingencies in the Development of Adolescent Antisocial Behavior: A Matching Law Approach.” In Developmental Theories of Crime and Delinquency. Edited by T. P. Thornberry. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1997. Pages 55-57.

    Cressey, Donald R. Other People’s Money. New York: Free Press, 1953.

    Davis, Kingsley. Human Society. New York: Macmillan, 1950.

    More Further Reading

    Dentler, Robert A., and Erikson, Kai T. “The Functions of Deviance in Groups.” Social Problems 7 (1959): 98-107.

    Durkheim, Émile. The Rules of Sociological Method. 1895. New York: The Free Press, 1938.

    Elliott, Delbert S.; Huizinga, David; and Ageton, Suzanne S. Explaining Delinquency and Drug Use. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage, 1985.

    Erikson, Kai T. Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance. New York: Wiley, 1966.

    Gibbs, Jack P. “Conceptions of Deviant Behavior: The Old and the New.” Pacific Sociological Review 9 (1966): 9-14.

    . Norms, Deviance, and Social Control: Conceptual Matters. New York: Elsevier, 1981.

    Gottfredson, Michael R., and Hirschi, Travis. A General Theory of Crime. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University, 1990.

    Gove, Walter R., ed. The Labelling of Deviance: Evaluating a Perspective. 2d ed. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1980.

    Gross, Llewellyn, ed. Symposium on Sociological Theory. White Plains, N.Y.: Row-Peterson, 1959.

    Hagan, John. “Labelling and Deviance: A Case Study in the ‘Sociology of the Interesting.” Social Problems 20 (1973): 447-458.

    . “A Power-Control Theory of Gender and Delinquency.” In Structural Criminology. Edited by J. Hagan. New Brunswick, N.J.:Rutgers University Press, 1989. Pages 145-162.

    Hoebel. E. Adamson. The Law of Primitive Man. New York: Atheneum, 1968.

    Deviance in Law Enforcement

    Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of deviance.

    Resources

    See Also

    • Law Enforcement Officer
    • Policeman
    • Law Enforcement Agency

    Further Reading

    Definition of Deviance

    The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Deviance: Commonly refers to violations of social norms (including legal norms) but many sociologists reject this behavioral or normative definition of deviance and see deviance instead as simply a label. Deviance in this view is that which we react to, through social control responses, as deviance. See: LABELING THEORY in this legal dictionary and in the world encyclopedia of law.

    Deviance: Resources

    Notes and References

    • Drislane, R., & Parkinson, G. (2016). (Concept of) Deviance. Online dictionary of the social sciences. Open University of Canada

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