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Routledge Handbook on Deviance.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2017Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (563 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317299868
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 302.542
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Contributors -- Preface -- SECTION I Defining and Studying Deviance -- 1 The Definitions of Deviance -- 2 Studying Deviance -- 3 Bridging Normative and Reactivist Perspectives: An Introduction to Positive Deviance -- 4 Media Constructions of Athletics: Normalization and Deviance -- SECTION II Sport and Deviance -- 5 Doping and Deviance: An Interactionist Perspective -- 6 "Who's Going to Protect This House?" Domestic and Child Abuse Among Professional Athletes -- 7 Criminal and Deviant Behaviors Among College Athletes in the United States -- 8 The Animal-Sport Complex: Shifts in Public Perception and Tolerance -- 9 A Spot of Sporting Bovver? Deviant Sports Fans -- SECTION III Leisure and Deviance -- 10 The Drag Pit: Cockfighting, Rationale, and Decline -- 11 Neo-Nazi Music Subculture -- 12 Deviance and the Motorcycle Gangs -- 13 Deviance as Career Opportunity: The Case of Graffiti and Skateboarding -- SECTION IV Substance Use -- 14 Binge Drinking: Deviant Leisure and Consumer Culture -- 15 Cannabis: Past to Present -- 16 Meth (Mis)Understandings -- 17 Deviance Among Deviants: Reactions to Drug Use Among Drug Users -- SECTION V Religion and Cults -- 18 Christian Sectarianism, Fundamentalism, and Extremism -- 19 Leaving Home: Making the Decision to Enter a New Religious Movement -- 20 The Perception of Atheism as Deviant -- SECTION VI Politically Marginalized Populations -- 21 Abortion: A Most Common Deviance -- 22 The White Mule in the Room: The Case of Pariah Groups in the Study of Deviance -- 23 The Deadbeat Dad: The Stereotype and the Reality -- SECTION VII Sexuality and Deviance -- 24 Pimps' Perspectives on Good and Bad Sex Workers and Sex Acts -- 25 Fat Sexuality as Deviance -- 26 Zoosexual Identity Talk and the Disciplining of Discourse -- SECTION VIII Online Deviance -- 27 The Hacker Subculture.
28 The Emergence of Sexting Inside and Outside of the United States: Research Findings and Legal Issues -- 29 "But That's Not Sexting": Accounts From Emerging Adults -- 30 Police Deviance and New Media: The Death of Eric Garner -- 31 But Is It Really Cheating? Evolving Expectations of Online Academic Dishonesty -- SECTION IX Stigmatizing Health and Body Conditions -- 32 Health-Related Stigmas -- 33 If You're "So OCD," What Does That Make Me? -- 34 Acting Out at the Medico-Legal Borderland: Conduct Disorder and the Medicalization of Children's Deviant Behavior -- 35 Obesity and Deviance -- 36 The Defamed Deranged of Gotham: The Social Construction of Mental Illness as Criminality in Batman Comics -- 37 Body Modification Frames and Claims -- SECTION X Elite and Occupational Deviance -- 38 Deviant Executives: Crime in the Suites -- 39 Perspectives on the Psychology of Elite Deviants -- 40 Constructing a Demographic Portrait of Deviant Doctors -- 41 Tyranny of the Minority: How the Repressive Left Has Redefined Academic Deviance -- 42 Restaurants and Deviance: Theft in Professional Back Places -- Index.
Summary: The Routledge Handbook on Deviance brings together original contributions on deviance, with a focus on new, emerging, and hidden forms of deviant behavior. The editors have curated a comprehensive collection highlighting the relativity of deviance, with chapters exploring the deviant behaviors related to sport, leisure, substance use, religion and cults, politically marginalized populations, sexuality, online interaction, stigmatizing health and body conditions, and elite and workplace deviance. This handbook is a valuable resource for researchers and students investigating deviance across many disciplines, including criminology, criminal justice, sociology, and anthropology.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Contributors -- Preface -- SECTION I Defining and Studying Deviance -- 1 The Definitions of Deviance -- 2 Studying Deviance -- 3 Bridging Normative and Reactivist Perspectives: An Introduction to Positive Deviance -- 4 Media Constructions of Athletics: Normalization and Deviance -- SECTION II Sport and Deviance -- 5 Doping and Deviance: An Interactionist Perspective -- 6 "Who's Going to Protect This House?" Domestic and Child Abuse Among Professional Athletes -- 7 Criminal and Deviant Behaviors Among College Athletes in the United States -- 8 The Animal-Sport Complex: Shifts in Public Perception and Tolerance -- 9 A Spot of Sporting Bovver? Deviant Sports Fans -- SECTION III Leisure and Deviance -- 10 The Drag Pit: Cockfighting, Rationale, and Decline -- 11 Neo-Nazi Music Subculture -- 12 Deviance and the Motorcycle Gangs -- 13 Deviance as Career Opportunity: The Case of Graffiti and Skateboarding -- SECTION IV Substance Use -- 14 Binge Drinking: Deviant Leisure and Consumer Culture -- 15 Cannabis: Past to Present -- 16 Meth (Mis)Understandings -- 17 Deviance Among Deviants: Reactions to Drug Use Among Drug Users -- SECTION V Religion and Cults -- 18 Christian Sectarianism, Fundamentalism, and Extremism -- 19 Leaving Home: Making the Decision to Enter a New Religious Movement -- 20 The Perception of Atheism as Deviant -- SECTION VI Politically Marginalized Populations -- 21 Abortion: A Most Common Deviance -- 22 The White Mule in the Room: The Case of Pariah Groups in the Study of Deviance -- 23 The Deadbeat Dad: The Stereotype and the Reality -- SECTION VII Sexuality and Deviance -- 24 Pimps' Perspectives on Good and Bad Sex Workers and Sex Acts -- 25 Fat Sexuality as Deviance -- 26 Zoosexual Identity Talk and the Disciplining of Discourse -- SECTION VIII Online Deviance -- 27 The Hacker Subculture.

28 The Emergence of Sexting Inside and Outside of the United States: Research Findings and Legal Issues -- 29 "But That's Not Sexting": Accounts From Emerging Adults -- 30 Police Deviance and New Media: The Death of Eric Garner -- 31 But Is It Really Cheating? Evolving Expectations of Online Academic Dishonesty -- SECTION IX Stigmatizing Health and Body Conditions -- 32 Health-Related Stigmas -- 33 If You're "So OCD," What Does That Make Me? -- 34 Acting Out at the Medico-Legal Borderland: Conduct Disorder and the Medicalization of Children's Deviant Behavior -- 35 Obesity and Deviance -- 36 The Defamed Deranged of Gotham: The Social Construction of Mental Illness as Criminality in Batman Comics -- 37 Body Modification Frames and Claims -- SECTION X Elite and Occupational Deviance -- 38 Deviant Executives: Crime in the Suites -- 39 Perspectives on the Psychology of Elite Deviants -- 40 Constructing a Demographic Portrait of Deviant Doctors -- 41 Tyranny of the Minority: How the Repressive Left Has Redefined Academic Deviance -- 42 Restaurants and Deviance: Theft in Professional Back Places -- Index.

The Routledge Handbook on Deviance brings together original contributions on deviance, with a focus on new, emerging, and hidden forms of deviant behavior. The editors have curated a comprehensive collection highlighting the relativity of deviance, with chapters exploring the deviant behaviors related to sport, leisure, substance use, religion and cults, politically marginalized populations, sexuality, online interaction, stigmatizing health and body conditions, and elite and workplace deviance. This handbook is a valuable resource for researchers and students investigating deviance across many disciplines, including criminology, criminal justice, sociology, and anthropology.

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