Synopsis
Since its first appearance Understanding Deviance has been immensely popular with students and teachers alike for the way it introduces a broad range of contemporary theories of crime, delinquency, social deviance and social control. Now updated and revised to include recent theoretical developments, the book offers students a stimulating and up-to-date guide to the principle theories of crime and social deviance in their British, European and North American contexts. This book is intended for students of sociology, criminology, social behaviour, social institutions, and social administration. Also law students, students of women's studies and scholars in all the above disciplines.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Downes and Rock's popular textbook, Understanding Deviance, provides the reader with an indispensable guide to criminological theory. It sympathetically outlines the principal theories of crime and rule-breaking, discussing them chronologically, and placing them in their European and North American contexts, confronting major criticisms that have been voiced against them, and constructing defences where appropriate. The book has been thoroughly revised and brought up-to-date to include new issues of crime, deviance, and theory in the early twenty-first century. It includes new studies in the areas of gang and subcultural theory, further discussion of post-modernism and the 'risk society', and assessment of how different approaches address the lengthy fall in crime rate across most democratic and developed societies.
Biographie de l'auteur
David Downes is Emeritus Professor of Social Administration and a member of the Mannheim Centre of Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political Science He is currently working on the causes, character and consequences of mass imprisonment in the USA, and on comparative trends in crime, inequality, the regulation of drug use, welfare services, and criminal justice. Paul Rock is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and a member of the Mannheim Centre of Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His interests focus on the development of criminal justice policies, particularly for victims of crime, but he has also published articles on criminological theory and the history of crime.
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