Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Deviance and Rule Breaking, Canadian Edition

by David M. Downes, Christopher Ray McCormick, Paul Elliott Rock

This book is a straightforward guide to the major European and American sociological theories of crime, delinquency, social deviance, and social control. The authors present chronological descriptions of functionalism, anomie, subculture theory, symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, control theories, and radical criminology, with discussion of variant theories and the relation of theories of crime to social policy. Extensively revised and updated, this new edition includes an additional chapter on feminist criminology.

384 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1995