In this Second Edition of his investigation into the relative nature of social deviance and how the public perceives it, author John Curra demonstrates that wha

"This sociology of deviance textbook draws on up-to-date scholarship across a spectrum of deviance categories, providing a symbolic interactionist analysis of t

Deviant Behavior offers an engaging and wide-ranging discussion of deviant behavior, beliefs, and conditions. It examines how the society defines, labels, and r

A classic text on deviance is updated and reissued.

Originally published in 1974, Deviance and Social Control represents a collection of original papers first heard at the annual meeting of the British Sociologic