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The Trouble With Evil: Social Control at the Edge of Morality (Suny Series in Deviance and Social Control) - Hardcover
About the Author
Edwin M. Lemert is former Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Davis. He is the author of Instead of Court: Diversion in Juvenile Justice; Social Action and Legal Change; Social Pathology: A Systematic Approach to the Theory of Sociopathic Behavior; Human Deviance, Social Problems, and Social Control; and co-author of Offenders in the Community. He is the 1996 recipient of the Western Society of Criminology Paul Tappan Award.
Review
"Lemert's method provides two significant conclusions: evil is a special kind of anti-social act that is not subject to ordinary social controls; and sorcery has not been demonstrated to be a form of 'social control' at all, no matter how common that argument may be in the literature--certainly it is not remotely similar to law, as it is known in modern urban societies." -- William G. Davis, Professor Emeritus, University of California-Davis
"The book is an interesting addition to our understanding of a concept--evil--that has received relatively little attention from students of deviance. Conceptualizing evil as a product of social interaction and emergent definitional processes moves our understanding of the (highly value laden) concept of evil away from comparatively fruitless efforts to derive a more concrete operational definition." -- Malcolm D. Holmes, University of Wyoming"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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