Thinking About Deviance: A Realistic Perspective, Second Edition

by Paul Higgins and Mitch Mackinem

Book Overview

Thinking About Deviance, second edition, explores how people participate in and produce the phenomena of deviance. Through nineteen brief and provocative chapters, such as "Is Deviance Harmful or Helpful?", "Once Deviant, Always Deviant?", and "Do You Get the Time Because You Did the Crime?", the book examines how everyone is involved in the many facets of deviance. While a small portion of deviance may seem to be exotic, done by people on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742561984
• ISBN13: 9780742561984
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"