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Comparative Deviance Perception and Law in Six Cultures
352 Pages
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Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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"Comparative Deviance" represents a systematic attempt to survey public perceptions of deviant behavior cross-culturally: in India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Yugoslavia and the United States. There is extensive diversity in both law and perception concerning such deviances as taking drugs, homosexuality, and abortion, yet there is evidence for a basically invariant structure in perception of... Read more
one: Paradigmatic Origins of the Research; two: Deviance, The Public and The Criminal Law; three: Foundations of Deviance Perception; four: Measuring Perceptions of Deviance Cross-Culturally; five: The Sampling of Cultures; six: Comparative Perceptions of Deviance; seven: The Structure of Deviance Perception; eight: Sociological Correlates of Deviance Perception; nine: The Criminal Law and Its Sanctions in Six Cultures; ten: Subcultural Perceptions of Deviance; eleven: Conclusions: Towards Unity...and Diversity
Biography
Graeme R. Newman, Marvin E. Wolfgang
