Are "deviant" and "criminal" behaviors inherently wrong or evil? Taking an innovative cross-cultural approach, Deviance Across Cultures spans the globe to give instructors an invaluable new resource for investigating the social construction of deviance. From studies on prostitution and drugs to examinations of religion and corporate deviance, this anthology--a collection of both classic and contemporary articles--responds to the growing need for interdisciplinary and globallearning in deviance studies.To create a strong framework for inquiry, editor Robert Heiner has written a comprehensive introduction to each article that emphasizes the topic's relationship to theory and to ongoing trends affecting the United States and other countries. Throughout, careful attention to distant cultures will encourage students to understand deviance from an academic--and less emotional--perspective.Ideal as either a main text or a supplementary reader, this collection builds on classic deviance theory and basic sociological concepts to introduce students to this complex subject. With its rich global perspective, Deviance Across Cultures will challenge and expand students' assumptions about social deviance--both at home and abroad.
Table of Contents
Explaining Deviance The Normal and the Pathological, Emile Durkheim On the Sociology of Deviance, Kai T. Erikson Social Structure and Anomie, Robert K. Merton Techniques of Neutralization, Gresham M. Sykes and David Matza A Control Theory of Delinquency, Travis Hirschi Conceptions of Deviant Behavior: The Old and the New, Jack P. Gibbs The Search for Scapegoat Deviants, Jeffery S. Victor Moral Panics Moral Panics in History, Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda The Classic Moral Panic: The Mods and the Rockers, Kenneth Thompson The Devil Goes to Day Care: McMartin and the Making of a Moral Panic, Mary de Young Penis Panics, Robert E. Batholomew Sex and Sexuality The Cochon and the Hombre-Hombre in Nicaragua, Roger N. Lancaster Women in Lesotho and the (Western) Construction of Homophobia, K. Limakatso Kendall Paraphilias Across Cultures, Dinesh Bhugra Prostitution Prostitution and the Status of Women in South Korea, Robert Heiner Big Sister is Watching You! Gender Interaction and the Unwritten Rules of the Amsterdam Red-Light District, Manuel B. Aalbers Drugs Rx Drugs, 60 Minutes Healthy Nightclubs and Recreational Substance Use: From a Harm Minimization to a Healthy Settings Approach, Mark A. Bellis, Karen Hughes, and Helen Lowey Why Ritalin Rules, Mary Eberstadt Pumped-Up Panic, Dann Perry Corporate Deviance Regulation, White-Collar Crime and The Bank of Credit and Commerce International, Basia Spalek Corruption Scandals in America and Europe: Enron and EU Fraud in Comparative Perspective, Cris Shore Religion and Deviance Nones on the Run: Evangelical Heathens in the Deep South, Robert Heiner Caught up in the Cult Wars: Confessions of a Canadian Researcher, Susan J. Palmer Suicide Bombers: The Just War Debate, Islamic Style, John Kelsay Mental Disorders On Being Sane in Insane Places, David L. Rosenhan Schizophrenia in the Third World, Richard Warner Epilogue: A Freedom-Deviance Trade-Off? Lessons in Order, David H. Bayley