Deviant Behavior by John A Humphrey

Deviant Behavior by John A Humphrey

This book is for the student in the introductory course on deviant be- havior and in related courses. A wide range of ideas and facts is set forth in a way that should be comprehensible to the student without prior knowledge of this area of study. In Chapter 1, The Nature of Deviance, various ways of defining deviance are explored and one is settled upon: Deviance is behavior that is unusual, not typical, in a society or group. Chapter 2 is devoted to a preliminary consideration of several main currents of social thought that seek to explain why deviance comes about and is perpetrated. These explanations fall into four broad theo- retical categories. First, there are those theories that view the major sources of deviance as having to do with the extent to which individ- uals are bound into or dissociated from the group; these are termed social integration theories. Second, there are the cultural support the- ories, which specify that there are subcultures of deviance, that is, bod- ies of customs and values that advocate a given form of deviance and are socially transmitted from one person to another through the learn- ing process. Third, there are social disorganization and conflict theo- ries, which focus on the ways in which a lack of group organization and the presence of broad social and cultural conflicts bring about de- viance.

Humphrey, John a.: - John A. Humphrey, Ph.D., is a professor in the Criminal Justice Department at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. He is also the co-director of the Consortium on Justice and Society in the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College. He holds a degree from Saint Anselm College, and a doctorate in sociology from the University of New Hampshire where he completed a post-doctorate in family violence (with Murray A. Straus) in the Family Research Laboratory. John Humphrey's research focuses on interpersonal violence, including physical and sexual assault, the link between homicide and suicide, wrongful conviction, and alternatives to incarceration. His work, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Justice, and the U.S. Department of Justice, has been published by journals in the fields of anthropology, sociology, psychology, criminal justice, and medicine. His books include: A Panorama of Suicide, The Administration of Justice, Deviant Behavior: Its Patterns, Sources, and Control, and Wrongly Convicted: When Justice Fails.

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ISBN 13	9780130893512
ISBN 10	013089351X
Titel	Deviant Behavior
Autor	John A Humphrey
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Pearson Education (US)
Erscheinungsjahr	2005-09-26
Seitenanzahl	432
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