Readings in Deviant Behavior

Introduction



Part One: Defining and Researching Deviance



1. Images of Deviance

Stephen Pfohl



2. Defining Deviance Down

Daniel Patrick Moynihan



3. Strategies for Researching Street Deviance

Leon Anderson and Thomas C. Calhoun



4. Pleasures and Perils in Deviance Research

Erich Goode



Part Two: Positivist Theories



5. Anomie-Strain Theory

Robert Merton



6. Differential Association Theory

Edwin H. Sutherland and Donald R. Cressey



7. Control Theory

Travis Hirschi



8. Shaming Theory

John Braithwaite



Part Three: Constructionist Theories



9. Labeling Theory

Howard S. Becker



10. Phenomenological Theory

Jack Katz



11. Conflict Theory

Richard Quinney



12. Feminist Theory

Kathleen Daly



13. Postmodernist Theory

David O. Friedrichs and Jessica Friedrichs



Part Four: Physical Violence



14. Suicide Bombing: The Power of the Powerless

Christoper Reuter



15. Serial Murder: Popular Myths and Empirical Realities

James Alan Fox and Jack Levin



16. What Triggers School Shootings?

Matthew S. Kimmel and Matthew Mahler



17. "I Hope Someone Murders Your Mother!": Extreme Support for the Death Penalty

Margaret Vandiver, David J. Giacopassi, and Peter R. Gathje



Part Five: Intimate Violence



18. Tenured and Battered

Madeline Bates



19. Intimate Stalking: Characteristics and Consequences

Jennifer L. Dunn



20. Child-to-Mother Violence

Debra Jackson



21. How Child Molesters Explain Their Deviance

Louanne Lawson



Part Six: Self-Destructive Deviance



22. The Desire for Death

Thomas Joiner



23. Self-Injurers as a "Lonely Crowd"



24. Being Sane in Insane Places

David L. Rosenhan



25. The Emergence of Hyperactive Adults as Abnormal

Peter Conrad and Deborah Potter



Part Seven: Victims of Stima



26. Managing the Stigma of Personal Bankruptcy

Deborah Thorne and Leon Anderson



27. The Stigma of Obesity

Erich Goode



28. What Is It Like to Be a Rural Lesbian?

Maragaret Cooper



29. "You're Not a Retard, You're Just Wise"

Steven J. Taylor



Part Eight: Heterosexual Deviance



30. The Globalization of Sex Tourism

Nancy A. Wonders and Raymond Michalowski



31. Flawed Theory and Method in Studies of Prostitution

Ronald Weitzer



32. Exotic Dancers: "Where Am I Going to Stop?"

Jennifer K. Wesely



33. "Everyone Knows Who the Sluts Are": How Young Women Get Around the Stigma

Jennifer L. Dunn



Part Nine: Drug Use



34. Binge Drinking on College Campus

Keith F. Durkin, Scott E. Wolfe, and Kara Lewis



35. Predictors of Smoking Among College Students

Karen M. Emmons, Henry Wechsler, George Dowdall, and Melissa Abraham



36. OxyContin: A Prescription for Disaster

James A. Inciardi and Jennifer L. Goode



37. The Morphing Drug Scene on Campus

Barrett Seaman



Part Ten: Internet Deviance



38. Child Porn on the Net

Ethel Quayle and Max Taylor



39. Online Dating: "I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional"

Andrea Orr



40. Online Boys: Male-for-Male Internet Escorts

Matthew V. Pruitt



41. Techniques of Social Engineering

Kevin D. Mitnik and William L. Simon



Part Eleven: Privileged Deviance



42. Criminal Telemarketing: A Profession on the Line

Neal Shover, Glenn S. Coffey, and Dick Hobbs



43. The Neutralization of Professional Deviance among Veterinarians

DeAnn M. Kalich



44. Social Causes of Political Corruption

Xiaohui Xin and Thomas K. Rudel



45. Enron: Organizational Rituals as Deviance



Part Twelve: Underprivileged Deviance



46. Shoplifters: "The Devil Made Me Do It"

Paul Cromwell and Quint Thurman



47. Burglary: The Offender's Perspective

Paul Cromwell



48. The Immediate Experience of Carjacking

Bruce A. Jacobs, Volkan Topalli, and Richard Wright



49. A Sociological Analysis of Animal Cruelty

Clifton P. Flynn



Part Thirteen: Controlling Deviance



50. How Social Science Can Reduce Terrorism

Scott L. Plous and Philip G. Zimbardo



51. Overcoming Cybercon

Lea Goldman



52. A New Way of Fighting the War on Drugs

Erich Goode



53. Everyday Surveillance in Postmodern Society

William G. Staples