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

Downes, David; Rock, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199569835 ISBN 13: 9780199569830

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2011

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Review from previous edition From a discipline that is replete with jargon, these authors manage to produce an accessible, elegantly written text which is not only of value to the new student but which will enable practitioners and policy makers to refresh and revitalise their theoretical understanding of crime and deviance. (Vista - Perspectives on Probation 2004)

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Downes and Rock's popular textbook, Understanding Deviance, provides the reader with an indispensable guide to criminological theory. It sympathetically outlines the principal theories of crime and rule-breaking, discussing them chronologically, and placing them in their European and North American contexts, confronting major criticisms that have been voiced against them, and constructing defences where appropriate.

The book has been thoroughly revised and brought up-to-date to include new issues of crime, deviance, and theory in the early twenty-first century. It includes new studies in the areas of gang and subcultural theory, further discussion of post-modernism and the 'risk society', and assessment of how different approaches address the lengthy fall in crime rate across most democratic and developed societies.

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• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0199569835
• ISBN 13: 9780199569830
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 6
• Anzahl der Seiten: 424