Deviance: Career of a Concept

Cengage Learning

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UPC:
9780534570019
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
4/18/2003
Author:
Joel Best
Language:
english
Edition:
1
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One of America's foremost experts on deviance, Joel Best, explores the history of the study of deviance in this short, highly accessible supplementary text. Joel Best covers the emergence of anomie theory in the 1950s, the rise of labeling theory in the 1960s, and the shifts in the field as it came under criticism from other theoretical perspectives.