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

Downes, David,Rock, Paul

ISBN 10: 0198760876 / ISBN 13: 9780198760870

Published by Oxford University Press, 1982

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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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the ...
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1982
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good