Understanding Deviance

David Downes is Emeritus Professor of Social Administration and a member of the Mannheim Centre of Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political Science He is currently working on the causes, character and consequences of mass imprisonment in the USA, and on comparative trends in crime, inequality, the regulation of drug use, welfare services, and criminal justice. Paul Rock is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and a member of the Mannheim Centre of Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His interests focus on the development of criminal justice policies, particularly for victims of crime, but he has also published articles on criminological theory and the history of crime.

• 1. Confusion and diversity ; 2. Sources of knowledge about deviance ; 3. The University of Chicago Sociology Department ; 4. Functionalism, deviance, and control ; 5. Anomie ; 6. Culture and subculture ; 7. Symbolic interactionism ; 8. Phenomenology ; 9. Control theories ; 10. Radical criminology ; 11. Feminist criminology ; 12. Deviance theories and social policy ; 13. The metamorphosis and deviance?

Review from previous edition From a discipline that is replete with jargon, these authors manage to produce an accessible, elegantly written text which is not only of value to the new student but which will enable practitioners and policy makers to refresh and revitalise their theoretical understanding of crime and deviance. Vista - Perspectives on Probation 2004