Understanding deviance: a guide to the sociology of crime and rule-breaking

'Understanding Deviance' provides an indispensable guide to the major themes and theories which have come to form the sociology of crime and deviance, from their origins in the research of the University of Chicago sociology department in the 1920s to the most recent work in cultural criminology

Confusion and diversity -- Sources of knowledge about deviance -- The University of Chicago Sociology Department -- Functionalism, deviance, and control -- Anomie -- Culture and subculture -- Symbolic interactionism -- Phenomenology -- Control theories -- Radical criminology -- Feminist criminology -- Deviance theories and social policy -- The metamorphosis of deviance?