Extreme Deviance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781412937221)

Most primary deviation is of transitory significance and involves a fairly insignificant punishment. Extreme Deviance focuses on behavior, beliefs, and traits that are so serious as to generate, in the words of Edwin Lemert, secondary deviation. Editors Erich Goode and D. Angus Vail tunnel to the core of the subject by emphasizing a set of central lessons, offering edgy, pedagogically dramatic illustrations of principles that are contained in no other collection of readings. The book is complete with vocabularies of motive, deviance neutralization, the acquisition of a deviant identity, and the formation of a deviance subculture.

Author: Erich Goode, D. Angus Vail
ISBN-10: 1412937221
ISBN-13: 9781412937221
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Language: English
Published: 08/03/2007
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.99h x 7.50w x 0.48d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2007 pg. 140