In this book deviance through technology and media is explained. Contributors examine substance abuse, gun violence, terrorism, adolescent substance use, deviance and crime, fear of terrorism, Kurdish pride gang, media exposure, secularization and modernity, social control, social order, and the impact of Covid-19 on children’s lives.
This book investigates how the concept of social control has been used to capture the ways in which individuals, communities and societies respond to a variety of forms of deviant behaviour.
Willis uses the terms 'culture' and 'counter-culture' in a far more 'dialectical' sense than occurs even in the work of most other class conflict theorists. His main concern is to convey the 'profane creativity' of subordinate cultures ...
This new edition of Social Control: An Introduction will be essential reading for students taking courses in deviance and social control, and will also appeal to those studying criminology, the sociology of law, and medical sociology.
In fact, the association of survey and audit becomes slightly negative when this category is excluded. ... edited by Lawrence Bobo, Melvin Oliver, James Johnson Jr., and Abel Valenzuela Jr. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
While the collection provides broad analysis of contemporary topics, it also weaves this analysis around a set of innovative and unifying themes.
Pp. 7–37 in Integrating Individual and Ecological Aspects of Crime, edited by David P. Farrington, ... “Wage Inequality and Criminal Activity: An Extreme Bounds Analysis for the United States, 1975–1990. ... Crime and Disrepute.
Contains contributions on the theme of popular culture, crime, and social control.
While the collection provides broad analysis of contemporary topics, it also weaves this analysis around a set of innovative and unifying themes.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Jensen, G. F. (2007). The sociology of deviance. In C. D. Bryant & D. L. Peck (Eds.), The handbook of 21st century sociology (pp. 370–379). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Jobes, P. C., Barclay, E., ...
In Making Trouble, leading scholars in criminology, sociology, criminal justice, womens studies, and social history explore the mediated cultural dynamics that govern image construction and understanding of a wide range of contemporary ...