Understanding deviance
Subtitle: a guide to the sociology of crime and rule-breaking
By: David Downes, Paul Rock
Contributors: Rock, Paul Elliott
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Oxford Univ Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9780199569830
Subjects: Sociological aspects; Crime; Deviant behavior
Description: 'Understanding Deviance' provides an indispensable guide to the major themes and theories which have come to form the sociology of crime and deviance, from their origins in the research of the University of Chicago sociology department in the 1920s to the most recent work in cultural criminology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-393) and index.