Deviance and social control: a reader

Conveniently divided into five comprehensive parts, Deviance and Social Control provides readers with a selection of articles that examine core issues in the field of deviant behavior and social control. Major areas covered in the book include how individuals 'become deviant,' changes in their identities as they become increasingly involved in deviance, how deviants explain or justify their behavior, the role of the mass media in framing popular impressions of deviants, social and political conflicts over deviance and over appropriate methods of suppressing or managing deviant populations, why norms and sanctions change over time, in either a more rigid or more tolerant direction, the role of others (family, friends, strangers, police, psychiatrists, etc.) in identifying individuals who are engaged in unacceptable behavior, attaching labels to them, and discriminating against them in some fashion, and ways in which deviant actors attempt to 'fight back' to reject stigmatization, enhance their self-esteem, and struggle for their rights. Types of deviance examined in the book include drug use and drug dealing, corporate crime, pornography, governmental deviance, rape and other violence against women, prostitution, homosexuality, cyberdeviance, AIDS, cheating among college students, transgenders, and many others.

Part 1: INTRODUCTORY ISSUES Defining Deviance Introduction Stephen Pfohl, Images of Deviance and Social Control Constructing and Controlling Deviance Introduction Howard S. Becker, Moral Entrepreneurs Gary T. Marx, Ironies of Social Control Part 2: THEORIES OF DEVIANCE Introduction Functionalist Theory Kai T. Erikson, The Sociology of Deviance Maria Elizabeth Grabe, Television News Magazines and Functionalism Social Disorganization Theory Rodney Stark, Deviant Places James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, Broken Windows Anomie Theory Robert K. Merton, Social Structure and Anomie Nikos Passas, Anomie and Corporate Deviance Learning Theory Edwin H. Sutherland, Differential Association Howard S. Becker, Becoming a Marijuana User Barbara Sherman Heyl, The Training of House Prostitutes Labeling Theory Howard S. Becker, Outsiders John I. Kitsuse, Societal Reaction to Deviant Behavior William B. Waegel, M. David Ermann, and Alan M. Horowitz, Labelling the CIA Deviant Conflict Theory David M. Gordon, Capitalism, Class, and Crime in America Elijah Anderson, The Police and the Black Male Patricia Yancey Martin and Robert A. Hummer, Fraternities and Rape on Campus Walter D. Connor, The Manufacture of Deviance in the Soviet Purges Part 3: RESEARCHING DEVIANCE Introduction Joseph J. Senna and Larry J. Siegel, Measuring Crime Jeff Leen, Number Jumble Clouds Judgment of Drug War Michael D. Smith, Improving Surveys on Violence Against Women Part 4: INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS Deviance in the Media and on the Internet Introduction Vincent F. Sacco, Media Constructions of Crime Joshua Gamson, Deviants on Talk Shows Keith F. Durkin and Clifton D. Bryant, Log on to Sex: Erotic Cyberspace as a New Frontier Medicine and Psychiatric Institutions Introduction Peter Conrad and Joseph W. Schneider, Medicine as an Institution of Social Control D.L. Rosenhan, On Being Sane in Insane Places Politics and the Control of Deviance Introduction Albert DiChiara and John F. Galliher, Politics of Marijuana Decriminalization Carole S. Vance, The Meese Commission on the Road Ronald Weitzer, Prostitution Control in America Part 5: IDENTITY, INTERACTION, AND RESISTANCE Becoming Deviant: Identity and Behavioral Change Introduction Sheigla Murphy, Dan Waldorf, and Craig Reinarman, Drifting into Drug Dealing Richard R. Troiden, Acquiring a Homosexual Identity Patricia Gagne, Richard Tewksbury, and Deanna McGaughey, Coming Out as a Transgendered Person Managing Deviance: Passing, Disclosure, and Neutralization Introduction Rose Weitz, Living with the Stigma of AIDS Donald L. McCabe, The Influence of Situational Ethics on Cheating Among College Students Michael L. Benson, Denying the Guilty Mind Diana Scully and Joseph Marolla, Rapists' Vocabulary of Motive Kathleen J. Ferraro and John M. Johnson, How Women Experience Battering Fighting Back: Organized Resistance by Deviants Introduction Ronald Weitzer, The Prostitutes' Rights Campaign Mary de Young, Pedophile Organizations Renee R. Anspach, Political Activism among the Disabled and Mental Patients Steven Epstein, Gay and Lesbian Movements