| Pt. I | Introduction | 1 |
| Moral entrepreneurs : the creation and enforcement of deviant categories | 2 | |
| Ironies of social control : authorities as contributors to deviance through escalation, nonenforcement, and covert facilitation | 7 | |
| The "discovery" of child abuse | 20 | |
| Pt. II | Theories | 33 |
| The normal and the pathological | 34 | |
| Social structure and anomie | 37 | |
| Illegitimate means and delinquent subcultures | 45 | |
| A general strain theory of community differences in crime rates | 49 | |
| The social self | 72 | |
| Primary and secondary deviation | 74 | |
| Stigma and social identity | 77 | |
| On behalf of labeling theory | 96 | |
| Toward a Marxian theory of deviance | 108 | |
| The poverty of the sociology of deviance : nuts, sluts, and preverts | 112 | |
| Techniques of neutralization : a theory of delinquency | 128 | |
| Becoming a marihuana user | 132 | |
| Differential association | 139 | |
| Differential identification | 142 | |
| Low self-control and crime | 146 | |
| On the absence or self-control as the basis for a general theory of crime : a critique | 168 | |
| Girls' crime and woman's place : toward a feminist model of female delinquency | 181 | |
| On the backs of working prostitutes : feminist theory and prostitution policy | 196 | |
| Appearance and delinquency : a research note | 205 | |
| Identity, strategy, and feminist politics : clemency for battered women who kill | 212 | |
| Pt. III | Deviant behaviors | 227 |
| Moral passage : the symbolic process in public designations of deviance | 228 | |
| Marihuana use and social control | 238 | |
| Deviance as a situated phenomenon : variations in the social interpretation of marijuana and alcohol use | 247 | |
| The madam as teacher : the training of house prostitutes | 256 | |
| Tearoom trade | 265 | |
| Convicted rapists' vocabulary of motive : excuses and justifications | 273 | |
| Topless dancers : managing stigma in a deviant occupation | 286 | |
| From sex as sin to sex as work : COYOTE and the reorganization of prostitution as a social concern | 296 | |
| Bodies, borders, and sex tourism in a globalized world : a tale of two cities - Amsterdam and Havana | 311 | |
| The function of humor for prison inmates | 337 | |
| Incarceration as a deviant form of social control | 348 | |
| The behavior of the systematic check forger | 352 | |
| Normal crimes : sociological features of the penal code in a public defender office | 360 | |
| Is "white collar crime" crime? | 380 | |
| Medical criminals : physician fraud in Medicaid | 391 | |
| White-collar crime in the savings and loan scandal | 415 | |
| Denying the guilty mind : accounting for involvement in a white-collar crime | 425 | |
| Computer crime : hackers, phreaks, and cyberpunks | 432 | |
| On being sane in insane places | 448 | |
| The moral career of the mental patient | 460 | |
| From witchcraft to drugcraft : biochemistry as mythology | 473 |
Although some of the older theoretical selections are occasionally more difficult for students to comprehend, they represent major influences in the development of the field of deviance and deserve attention and understanding. The section' of this edition presenting theoretical perspectives has been modified with the addition of new pieces representing developments in both feminist scholarship (sex tourism in Thailand), and the labeling perspective (whiteness as stigma). In the section on deviant behaviors, I have added new readings on professional misconduct by psychotherapists and on statutory rape.
This edition has greatly benefited from the work and dedication of my research assistants who helped secure articles and permissions and who sat through meetings where the merits of all potential articles were discussed. I extend my greatest thanks to Helena Rene, Veronica Gerth, and Natasha Nichols, all of whom provided excellent assistance for this edition. I also thank Marilyn Wahlert and Judy Omiya in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at UC, Irvine for their superb support in preparing materials for the final manuscript. Asalways, Sharon Chambliss and Nancy Roberts at Prentice Hall have been ideal editors, and I greatly appreciate their help with this new edition. Finally, I would like to acknowledge and thank the students in my deviance courses for their valuable comments and suggestions regarding past editions that should result in continued improvements of this reader.
Henry N. Pontell
University of California, Irvine
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