Deviance Today

Recommended by: Mayank Kumar

Content:

Part I: Positivist theories
1. Strain and anomie theories / Timothy Brezina and Miranda Baumann
2. Control theories of deviance / Robert Agnew
3. The developmental life-course perspective and juvenile deviance / Molly Buchanan
Part II: Constructionist theories
4. Labeling theory: a theoretical and empirical overview / Jaime Argueta, Jr. and Holly Lonergan
5. Between conflict and critical theories of deviance and crime / Vanessa Lynn and Deirdre Caputo-Levine
6. Feminism and deviance / Julie Ann Harms Cannon and Michael S. Clymer
Part III: Deviant criminal behavior
7. Force or appeal to loved ones: examining Sykes and Matza's (1957) techniques of neutralization on female serial killers and their male counterparts / Veronyka James and Stacie Merken
8. A definitional framework of poisoning crimes / Sarah C. Kilbane and Margaret A. Wilson
9. Maternal infanticide and the criminalization of "poor" mothering / Martha Smithey and Ignacio Luis Ramirez
Part IV: Elite deviance
10. How men and women avoid the stigma of white-collar crime / Paul M. Klenowski, Heith Copes, and Lynne M. Vieraitis
11. Deviance in policing and the mistreatment of LGBTQ people of color / Tia Sherèe Gaynor and Brandi Blessett
12. Clergy misconduct as elite deviance: assessing the problem / Anson Shupe
Part V: Substance abuse
13. The prescription drug crisis / Jason A. Ford
14. Illicit drug and alcohol use among college students, revisited: changing tastes over time / Robert B. Jenkot
15. Alcohol: good creature of God or domesticated demon? / Paul M. Roman
Part VI: Sexual deviance
16. Sexual deviance theory, Generation Z, and the LGBTQ community / Shane Gunderson
17. It's a dog eat dog world: navigating stigma in a zoophile cyber-community / R.J. Maratea, Sophia Frontale, Amanda Kerbel, and Katarina Veevers-Carter
18. Female pornography use and sexual coercion perpetration among adolescents and young adults / Poco D. Kernsmith, Brianna Sabol, and Joanne P. Smith-Darden
Part VII: Physical manifestations of deviance
19. Revisiting self-mutilation and body modification / Jim D. Taylor
20. Typologies of teenage suicide: analyzing suicide notes through Durkheimian categories / Richard Tewksbury, Ronald M. Holmes, and David P. Connor
21. Why would anyone stick a needle there? Motivations and meanings associated with genital piercings / Jeremy N. Thomas and Celene Fuller
Part VIII: Deviant and stigmatized communities
22. Furries: a challenge to meanings of social deviance / Jackie L. Eller and Andrea R. Eller
23. Homelessness and deviance / Jay Bainbridge, Eileen Johns, Susan Nayowith, and Maryanne Schretzman
24. Social movements: normalizing "deviance" / David Zeller and Robert D. Benford
Part IX: Medical deviance
25. The stigma of obesity / Erich Goode
26. Bothersome bowels and fetid flatulence: managing stigmatizing gastrointestinal symptoms of celiac disease / Denise A. Copelton
27. Care giving without the care: the deviant treatment of residents in nursing homes / Jason S. Ulsperger and J. David Knottnerus
Part X: Cyberdeviance
28. Cyberdeviance: an introduction / Keith F. Durkin
29. (My full name) IS A WHORE: gendered experiences in cyberbullying and online harassment / Rebecca Malinski, Alexandra Monaco, and Thomas Vander Ven
30. Rise of cryptocurrencies / Sarah Durrant and Addrain Conyers