Boundaries
Readings in Deviance, Crime, and Criminal Justice
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Minimum new order: 25 copies
Minimum reorder: 10 copies
With Boundaries, you can build a custom reader for your deviance or criminology course from more than 400 classic and contemporary readings.
Plus up to 20% of the custom reader can be your own writing or come from outside sources.
Program features include:
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Readings are grouped under 18 topic areas that address classic concerns and contemporary issues
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Readings include headnotes and you can choose to include optional questions at the end of the readings and to include introductions to each of the topical sections
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Each reading is categorized by a variety of selection categorizations and thematic classifications and articles are cross listed into other areas of sociology or criminal justice making it easy to compile your reader
This custom solution is appropriate for the following course(s):
- Criminal Justice
- Sociology
UNDERSTANDING DEVIANCE AND CONFORMITY
Defining/Constructing Deviance
Deviant Relations and Social Organization
Researching Deviance
BECOMING DEVIANT
Entering Deviance (Socialization and Recruitment)
Accounts of Deviance
Stigma Management and Neutralization/Justification Techniques
Exiting Deviance
EXPLAINING DEVIANCE
Fuctionalist Theory
Learning Theories (Social Learning and Differential Association)
Social Control Theory
Strain and Social Disorganization Theories
Social Reaction Theories (Interactionist and Labeling Approaches)
Conflict/Critical Theory
Feminist Theory
Integrated and Other Theories
TYPES OF DEVIANCE
Alcohol and Drugs
Sexual Deviance
“Alternate” Sexualities and Phobias
Rape, Child Molestation, and Domestic Abuse
Body Modification
Crime and Delinquency
Gangs
Mental Illness
Occupational, Corporate, and Governmental Deviance
Other Forms of Deviance
REACTIONS TO DEVIANCE
Formal Social Control
Informal Social Control
UNDERSTANDING CRIME AND CRIMINOLOGY
Criminology and Crime
Trends and Rates of Crime
Research Methods in Criminology
Age and Crime
Gender and Crime
Race and Crime
Social Class and Crime
Victimization
EXPLAINING CRIME & CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
Biological Theories of Crime
Psychological and Developmental Theories of Crime
Learning Theories, Differential Association, and Subculture of Violence
Social Control Theories
Rational Control Theories
Labeling and Social Reaction Theories
Strain and Anomie Theories
Social Disorganization Theories
Marxist and Conflict Theories
Feminish Theory
Integrated and Other Theories
TYPES OF CRIME
Property Crimes
Violent Crimes
Family and Sexual Crimes
Hate Crimes
Drugs and Crime
Gangs
Organized Crime
Elite and State Crimes
Terrorism
SOCIETAL REACTIONS TO CRIME
Police and Law Enforcement
The Judiciatory Process
Prisons, Correction, and Rehabilitation
Preventing and Controlling Crime
The following suggested Tables of Contents contain a semester's worth of readings in specific topics:
