This informative reader introduces students to the sociological imagination in a way that is informative and entertaining. From a pedagogical standpoint, this is an excellent reader for introductory level courses on the sociology of deviance and social control. The collection of articles combines readings on sociological perspectives and theories with journalistic treatments of deviance and social control. The focus is on the social construction of deviance and the legitimizing of social control.
PART I: DEVIANCE AND SOCIETY 1. Social Interaction in Times Square – Vernon Boggs and William Kornblum 2. Prescientific Approaches to Deviance – Linda Deutschmann 3. Lay Defintions of Crime – Robert A. Silverman, James J. Teevan, and Vincent F. Sacco 4. Media Constructions of Crime – Vincent Sacco 5. Pleasures of the Fur – George Gurley
PART II: SOCIAL CONTROL 6. The Body of the Condemned – Michel Foucault 7. Executive Summary – The Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System 8. The Short, Brutal Life of Terry Fitzsimmons – Cynthia Amsden
PART III: SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES 9. Foundations of Sociological Theory – Robert J. Brym 10. Strain Theory and School Crime – Robert Agnew 11. The Social Reality of Crime – Richard Quinney 12. The Influence of Situational Ethics on Cheating Among College Students – Donald L. McCabe 13. Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality – Calvin S. Hall and Gardner Lindzey 14. Why Is It So Difficult for People to Be Happy? – Sigmund Freud
PART IV: SEXUAL, DOMESTIC, AND COMMERCIAL DEVIANCE 15. Prostitution – Ian Gomme 16. College Girl to Call Girl – Sarah Schmidt 17. Prison for Women’s Invisible Minority – Melissa Stewart 18. Violence Stalks World’s Women – John Stackhouse 19. The Canadian Criminal Justice System: Inequalities of Class – Leslie Samuelson
PART V: MENTAL ILLNESS 20. Medical Deviance and DICA: Disorders Usually First Diagnosed in Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence – Nancy Heitzeg 21. Being Sane in Insane Places – D.L. Rosenhan 22. Rethinking the Brain – Tanya Talaga
PART VI: YOUTH AND DEVIANCE 23. Teen Gangs: Fear in Our Schools – Michelle Shephard 24. Deviant Youth: The Social Construction of Youth Problems – Julian Tanner 25. Style and Resistance in the Punk Subculture – Stephen W. Baron 26. Youth Court Statistics 2000/01 – Paul deSouza 27. Youth at Risk: A Review of Ontario Young Offenders, Programs, and Literature That Supports Effective Intervention – Alan W. Leschied, D.A. Andrews, and Rogert D. Hoge
PART VII: STREET CRIME 28. The Justice Data Factfinder – Richard Du Wors 29. Go Boy and Surveillance Squad – Frederick J. Desroches 30. One on One with a Killer – Erin Anderson
Biography
Edward Ksenych teaches at George Brown College in Toronto. Winner of two Teaching Excellence awards, Professor Ksenych is particularly gifted in pedagogy and curricula. He is co-editor (with David Liu) of Conflict, Order, and Action: Readings in Sociology, Third Edition (Canadian Scholars' Press, 2001).
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