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Understanding Deviance by David Downes & Paul Rock
A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-breaking
Outlines the principal theories of crime and rule-breaking, discussing them chronologically, and placing them in their European and North American contexts, confronting major criticisms that have been voiced against them, and constructing defences where appropriate. This book serves as a guide to criminological theory.Downes and Rock's popular textbook, Understanding Deviance provides the reader with an indispensable guide to criminological theory. It sympathetically outlines the principal theories of crime and rule-breaking, discussing them chronologically, and placing them in their European and North American contexts, confronting major criticisms that have been voiced against them, and constructing defences where appropriate. The book has been thoroughly revised and brought up to date to include new issues of crime, deviance and theory in the early twenty-first century, and includes summaries of cultural criminology and the work of Laub and Sampson, and Gottfredson and Hirschi, on control theory. |
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| Author(s) : David Downes & Paul Rock | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0199278288 | ISBN-13 : 9780199278282 |
| RRP : £25.99 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United Kingdom
Publication Date : 11/01/2007
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page Length : 384mm
Page Size : 246mm