Deviant Behavior: Crime, Conflict, and Interest Groups,9780205447282

Deviant Behavior: Crime, Conflict, and Interest Groups

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Edition: 7th
ISBN13: 9780205447282
ISBN10: 0205447287
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-05-17
Publisher(s): Allyn & Bacon
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Summary

Using the framework of interest group conflict, this text combines a balanced, comprehensive overview of the field of deviance with first-hand expertise in the workings of the criminal justice system. Deviant Behavior, Seventh Edition, surveys a wide range of topics, from explanations regarding crime and criminal behavior, measurement of crime, violent crime and organizational deviance, to sexual behavior, mental health, and substance abuse.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
PART ONE The Concept of Deviant Behavior
1(104)
Perspectives on Deviants: The Early Development of Criminal Deviance Theory
3(18)
Who Is Deviant?
4(4)
The Rational Deviant---The Classical School
8(2)
The Deviant as Determined---Positivist Criminology
10(3)
Physical Characteristics of Deviants---Early Approaches
13(8)
Phrenology---The Beginning of the Scientific Study of the Deviant
14(2)
The Positivist School
16(5)
Theories of Criminal Deviance
21(57)
Heredity and Mental Deficiencies---Early Approaches
22(5)
A Short Note on Eugenics
23(2)
Twin Studies
25(2)
The Bell Curve
27(1)
Physical Characteristics Revisited
27(7)
Biological Inferiority
27(1)
Somatology
28(2)
XYY Chromosome Syndrome
30(1)
Brain Malfunction
30(3)
Emerging Biology-Based Theories
33(1)
Personality Defects and Attributes
34(7)
Psychopathy
34(2)
Traits and Thinking
36(3)
Unconscious Motivation
39(2)
Sociobiology---Trailblazing or Backtracking?
41(3)
The Rise of Social Determinism
44(2)
Economic Influences
46(3)
Karl Marx
46(1)
Willem Bonger
47(2)
Anomie
49(8)
Durkheim's Anomie
50(1)
Merton's Anomie
51(6)
Subcultures of Deviance
57(6)
Social Disorganization and Learning
58(2)
Differential Association Theory
60(3)
Control Theory
63(15)
Classical Theory Revisited
65(2)
Women and Deviance Theories
67(3)
Integration of Theories
70(8)
Why Is Certain Behavior Deviant?
78(27)
The Labeling Perspective
79(5)
The Production of Deviance
79(2)
The Effect of Labeling on Behavior
81(3)
Conflict Perspectives
84(11)
Culture Conflict
85(1)
Group Conflict
86(1)
Conflict and Authority
87(2)
Radical Theory
89(6)
Postmodern Criminology
95(1)
Once Again: What Is Deviant?
95(2)
Interest Group Conflict and Deviance
97(8)
PART TWO Crime as Deviant Behavior
105(148)
Crime in the Streets---Against the Person
107(35)
Measuring Crime
108(2)
Murder and Aggravated Assault
110(14)
Dimensions of Homicide
111(4)
Violence: A U.S. Value
115(3)
The Subculture of Interpersonal Violence
118(2)
The Conflict over Guns
120(4)
Forcible Rape
124(8)
Dimensions of Rape
126(3)
Violence and Sex
129(3)
Violent Sex and Conflict
132(10)
Crime in the Streets---Against Property
142(25)
Robbery
142(5)
Dimensions of Robbery
142(3)
Types of Robbers
145(2)
Burglary
147(3)
Dimensions of Burglary
147(1)
The World of Burglary
148(2)
Motor Vehicle Theft
150(2)
Dimensions of Motor Vehicle Theft
150(1)
Joyriders, Professionals, and Others
150(2)
Larceny-Theft
152(5)
The Extent of Shoplifting
153(1)
Types of Shoplifters
154(2)
Reactions to Shoplifting
156(1)
Arson
157(2)
Types of Arsonists
158(1)
Larceny in the American Heart
159(8)
The Rip-off Philosophy
160(7)
Assaults against Children and Spouses
167(38)
Physical Abuse of Children
167(12)
Problems of Definition
169(1)
The Discovery and Medicalization of Physical Abuse
170(4)
Extent
174(1)
Characteristics
175(1)
Stress, Power, and Culture
176(3)
Spouse Abuse
179(9)
The Discovery of Spouse Abuse
180(2)
Extent
182(1)
Characteristics
183(2)
Stress and Power---Again
185(3)
Sexual Abuse of Children
188(17)
Extent
189(1)
Characteristics
190(1)
Types of Molesters and Their Offenses
191(4)
Adult-Child Sex: A Matter of Liberation?
195(10)
Deviance and Organizations
205(48)
Employee Theft
208(6)
Pilferage
209(2)
Embezzlement
211(2)
Organizations as Victims
213(1)
Police Corruption
214(7)
Meat- and Grass-Eaters
215(3)
Rotten Apples or Rotten Barrels?
218(3)
Corporate Deviance
221(12)
Price-Fixing: A Fact of American Industry?
223(2)
``Would You Buy a Used Car from This Person?''
225(3)
``You Are What You Eat''
228(2)
The Badness of Good Business
230(3)
Organized Crime
233(20)
Characteristics and Structure
233(4)
From Muscle to Respectability
237(1)
Ethnic Succession
238(1)
Sources of Profit
239(14)
PART THREE Deviant Behavior in Contemporary Society
253(164)
Deviant Drug Use
255(42)
Drug Use as Deviance
256(1)
Classification of Drugs
257(3)
Alcohol
260(12)
Alcohol as a Drug
260(2)
Alcohol Use and Deviance
262(3)
Alcoholism, Disease, and Problem Drinking
265(3)
Correlates of Problem Drinking
268(4)
Heroin
272(10)
Heroin as a Drug
273(3)
Heroin Use and Deviance
276(3)
Correlates of Heroin Use
279(3)
Marijuana
282(4)
Marijuana as a Drug
283(2)
Marijuana Use and Deviance
285(1)
Correlates of Marijuana Use
285(1)
Cocaine
286(2)
Cocaine as a Drug
287(1)
Cocaine Use and Deviance
288(1)
Correlates of Cocaine Use
288(1)
Prescription Drug Abuse
288(1)
Performance-Enhancing Drugs
289(8)
Mental Disorders
297(31)
What Is Mental Disorder?
299(3)
Correlates of Mental Disorder
302(6)
Genetics
302(1)
Social Class
303(1)
Minorities and Mental Health
304(1)
Family Setting
305(1)
Male/Female Differences
306(1)
Stress
307(1)
Disease or Label?
308(9)
Mental Disease as a Myth
309(1)
A Labeling Theory of Mental Disorder
310(4)
Criticisms and Contributions of Labeling Theory
314(3)
Conflict and the Therapeutic State
317(1)
Common Mental Disorders
318(10)
Depression
318(2)
Phobias
320(2)
Treatment
322(6)
Suicide
328(27)
History of Suicide
329(1)
Current Attitudes Toward Suicide
330(2)
Public Opinion and Public Policy
331(1)
Professional Opinion
331(1)
Sociological Theories of Suicide
332(2)
Social Integration
332(1)
Status Integration
333(1)
Community Migration
333(1)
Incidence of Suicide
334(1)
International
334(1)
United States
335(1)
Risk Factors and Correlates of Suicide
335(9)
Risk Factors of Suicide
335(2)
Correlates of Suicide
337(7)
Failure to Seek Help
344(1)
Warning Signs
344(1)
Precipitating Events
345(1)
Helping Someone Who Is Suicidal
346(1)
Attempting Suicide
347(1)
Physician-Assisted Suicide
347(1)
Prevention and Protection
348(7)
Cyberdeviance
355(20)
Jeffrey Arbaugh
The Computer Underground
356(12)
A Typology of the Computer Underground
357(1)
The Relevant Actors of the Computer Underground
357(5)
Subcultures of Deviance in the Computer Underground
362(6)
Is the Computer Underground a Subculture?
368(1)
Crime and the Internet
368(1)
Sexual Deviance and Cyberspace
369(6)
Opportunity for Sexual Deviance in Cyberspace
370(1)
An Interview with White Eagle
371(4)
Sexual Deviance and Sexual Harassment
375(42)
An Interview with Tony
375(2)
Prostitution
377(16)
The Context of Prostitution
379(5)
Becoming a Prostitute
384(5)
The Pimp
389(1)
Prostitution and Conflict
390(3)
Homosexuality
393(13)
Homosexuality: Condition or Behavior?
393(2)
Becoming ``Homosexual''
395(5)
Homosexuality as Deviance
400(2)
Homosexuality and Conflict
402(2)
The Debate over Gay Marriage
404(2)
Sexual Harrassment
406(11)
Name Index 417(6)
Subject Index 423

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