Deviance Today

1) Brief Table of Contents

2) Full Table of Contents





1) Brief Table of Contents



Part One: Positivist Theories
Part Two: Constructionist Theories
Part Three: Physical Violence
Part Four: Substance Use and Abuse
Part Five: Sexual Deviance
Part Six: Physical Manifestations of Deviance
Part Seven: Elite Deviance
Part Eight: Medical Deviance
Part Nine: Deviant Communities
Part Ten: Emergent Deviance





2) Full Table of Contents



Part 1: Positivist Theories
Article 1: Strain and Anomie Theories--Timothy Brezina and Miranda Baumann
Article 2: Control Theories of Deviance--Robert Agnew



Part 2: Constructionist Theories
Article 3: Labeling--Mark Konty
Article 4: Conflict Theory: The Ongoing Battle--Addrain Conyers
Article 5: Feminism and Deviance--Julie Ann Harms Cannon



Part 3: Physical Violence


Article 6: Robbery--Dee Wood Harper and Kelly Frailing
Article 7: Child Abuse--Elizabeth Ehrhardt Mustaine



Part 4: Substance Use and Abuse
Article 8: Drug Use as Deviant Behavior--Erich Goode
Article 9: "What's Goin' On?": Illicit Drug and Alcohol Use among College Students--Robert B. Jenkot
Article 10: Academic Strain and Prescription Stimulant Misuse among College Students--Jason A. Ford and Ryan D. Schroeder



Part 5: Sexual Deviance


Article 11: Female Pornography Use and Sexual Coercion Perpetration--Poco D. Kernsmith and Roger M. Kernsmith
Article 12: The Prohibitionist Critique of Prostitution--Ronald Weitzer
Article 13: Exiting Street Prostitution: A Combination of Internal and External Factors--Sharon S. Oselin


Part 6: Physical Manifestations of Deviance
Article 14: The Relationship between Tattooing and Deviance in Contemporary Society--Joshua Adams
Article 15: Self-Mutilation and Body Modification--Jimmy D. Taylor
Article 16: Typologies of Teenage Suicide: Analyzing Suicide Notes through Durkheimian Categories-- Richard Tewksbury, Ronald M. Holmes and David Patrick Connor



Part 7: Elite Deviance
Article 17: White-Collar Crime--Mandeep K. Dhami
Article 18: How Men and Women Avoid the Stigma of White-Collar Crime--Paul M. Klenowski, Heith Copes, Christopher Mullins and Lynne Vieraitis
Article 19: Clergy Misconduct as Elite Deviance: Assessing the Problem--Anson Shupe



Part 8: Medical Deviance
Article 20: Diagnosis as Stigma Management: The Case of Highly Stigmatized Gastrointestinal Symptoms of Celiac Disease--Denise A. Copelton
Article 21: Care Giving without the Care: The Deviant Treatment of Residents in Nursing Homes--Jason S. Ulsperger and J. David Knottnerus
Article 22: The Stigma of Obesity Erich Goode



Part 9: Deviant Communities


Article 23: Furries and Their Communities--Jackie Eller, A. R. Eller and Zachary Santoni-Sanchez
Article 24: Are You "Deaf Enough?"--Melissa Powell-Williams
Article 25: Lesbian/Queer Bathhouse Culture and the Organization of (Im)Personal Sex--Corie Hammers



Part 10: Emergent Deviance
Article 26: The Dawn of a New Era: Renewed Prospects for the Sociology of Deviance in the Internet Age--Keith F. Durkin
Article 27: Paranormal Beliefs as Deviance--Erich Goode
Article 28: Conceptualizing the Criminological Problem of Terrorism--James Ross