Comparative Deviance: Perception and Law in Six Cultures

by Graeme Newman and Marvin E. Wolfgang

Book Overview

"Comparative Deviance" represents a systematic attempt to survey public perceptions of deviant behavior cross-culturally: in India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Yugoslavia and the United States. There is extensive diversity in both law and perception concerning such deviances as taking drugs, homosexuality, and abortion, yet there is evidence for a basically invariant structure in perception of deviance across all cultures. Within the countries studied...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138520896
• ISBN13: 9781138520899
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"