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

David M. Downes and Paul Elliott Rock

ISBN 10: 0198760876 / ISBN 13: 9780198760870

Published by Clarendon Press/ Oxford Univeristy Press, Oxford, London, Glasglow, New York, et al., 1982

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309 pp. Flawless copy save minor fading on cover pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-Breaking
• Publisher: Clarendon Press/ Oxford Univeristy Press, Oxford, London, Glasglow, New York, et al.
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198760876
• ISBN 13: 9780198760870
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Service Filmsetting Ltd., Manchester (Photoset by)
• Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Criminology & Criminal Just, Law Enf, Forensic Sci
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research
  • Social Studies & Sciences, Sociology, Social Work

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Synopsis

This text addresses the principal theories of crime and rule breaking in the European and North American context, providing a dispassionate analysis of major social theories of deviance and their major critiques and counter critiques. Third revised edition.

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. Both authors are series editors for the Clarendon Studies in Criminology.