Crime and deviance

Nicole Asquith

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Abstract

An inventory of the topics and issues most important to social theory reveals that crime is a critical social experience that has been instrumental to the development of the disciplines' theories and methodologies. Deviance and transgression are at the heart of theories aimed at explaining human behavior, and the twinned issues of conformity and deviance are central to the rich sociological theorizing over the last two centuries. This entry considers the scholarship of deviance – necessarily, in abridged form – and critically examines the arguments about the death knell of deviance as they relate to the contemporary landscapes of crime, deviance, and crime control, and questions its relevance to scholarship and practice.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory
EditorsBryan S. Turner, Chang Kyung-Sup, Cynthia F. Epstein, Peter Kivisto, J. Michael Ryan, William Outhwaite
Place of PublicationU.S.
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons
Pages1-16
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)9781118430873
ISBN (Print)9781118430866
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Keywords

  • crime
  • deviant behavior

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