Comparative Deviance: Perception and Law in Six Cultures

by Graeme Newman and Marvin E. Wolfgang

Book Overview

Survey's public perceptions of deviant behavior cross-culturally: in India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Yugoslavia and the United States. This work discovers that the strength of religious belief and urban rural background accounted for major differences in the perception of deviance - when differences were identified.

• 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"