Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule Breaking - Softcover

Downes, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198765339 ISBN 13: 9780198765332

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1998

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This text provides an introduction to the principal theories of crime and social deviance in the European and North American context. This third edition has taken into account all of the most significant developments since 1995. The final chapter presents a spirited defence of the deviance perspective against a number of criticisms. It is argued that theories of deviance have an anticipatory as well as an explanatory role to play.

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Paul Rock is Professor of Social Institutions at the London School of Economics. He was formerly editor of the British Journal of Sociology. His publications include an edited volume entitled a History of British Criminology (OUP 1988); A View from the Shadows (1986); Helping Victims of Crime (1990) and the Social World of an English Crown Court (1993), all for the Oxford Socio-Legal Studies series. His most recent study examining the rebuilding of Holloway, Reconstructing a Women's Prison, was published by OUP in 1996.

David Downes is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He was formerly the editor of The British Journal of Criminology. His publications include Contrasts in Tolerance, published (in paperback) by OUP in 1991.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198765339
• ISBN 13: 9780198765332
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 438
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