1st Edition

Deviance and Control The Secular Heresy

By Terence Morris Copyright 1976
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

In the early 1970s many sociologists, particularly radical theorists of crime and deviance, had rejected the belief that sociological knowledge was objective or value-free. Their work, often with good reason, had come to dominate much of the literature of criminology, deviance and social work. In this book, originally published in 1976, Professor Morris provided an immensely readable and... Read more

Preface.  1. The Social Reality of Deviance: An Introductory Excursion  2. Normality and Pathology: A Further Excursion  3. Deviance and the Legal System: Crime and the Law  4. Estimating the Deviance  5. ‘The Deviant is Different’  6. The Product of Society  7. The Apparatus of Control.  Notes.  Cases Cited.  Index.

Biography

Terence Morris