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Deviance : Career of a Concept (New ed)

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One of America's foremost experts on deviance, Joel Best, explores the history of the study of deviance in this short, highly accessible supplementary text.

Joel Best covers the emergence of anomie theory in the 1950s, the rise of labeling theory in the 1960s, and the shifts in the field as it came under criticism from other theoretical perspectives.

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Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
0534570011 / 9780534570019
Paperback / softback
302.542
18/04/2003
United States
112 pages
163 x 235 mm, 180 grams