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

Downes, David; Rock, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198765339 ISBN 13: 9780198765332

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This completely revised and updated text is a accessible review of the major sociological theories of crime, delinquency, social deviance, and social control. It moves chronologically from the "Chicago School" of the 1920s to contemporary work on "Left Realism" and feminist criminology. Also covered are functionalism, anomie, subculture theory, symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, control theories, and radical criminology.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198765339
• ISBN 13: 9780198765332
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 438