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Introducing deviance -- Explaining deviant behavior -- Constructing deviance -- Poverty and the hierarchy of social class -- Crime, criminalization, and criminal behavior -- White collar and corporate crime -- Political deviance -- Substance abuse -- Sexual deviance -- Unconventional beliefs -- Mental disorder -- Undesirable physical characteristics -- Tribal stigma: race and ethnicity.

"The first edition of this Drugs in American Society was published a half-century ago, when systematic, reliable, nationally-representative data on drug use were not available; the information that social scientists used back then to draw conclusions about the consumption of mood-altering drugs was patchy, incomplete, and in all likelihood, skewed. Today, if anything, there is virtually a churning sea of informative data about the subject of this book, and the task is sifting through it all. (In fact, fairly frequently, different sources promulgate slightly different statistics, a glitch no acute observer of the drug scene should be distressed by.) Much of this information is produced by ongoing data-gathering enterprises, mainly government sponsored, that conduct surveys, often regularly, so that it is possible for the interested student, scholar, researcher, and nonprofessional to produce an up-to-date picture of the drug situation in the United States. It seems almost redundant to mention this and, when relevant, I shall make the point more forcefully: The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on virtually all aspects of our lives, beginning, in the United States, early in 2020"--

The new 2022 edition of the most widely taught deviance text brings us into a changing political era. A new chapter on political deviance includes a section that defines political deviance, emphasizing a sociological and not an ideological definition. It also covers which sectors of the society define what constitutes political deviance; and political deviance and its relation to social change. In addition, the chapter on substance abuse provides more discussion of marijuana legalization and decriminalization. Although disease as potential deviance has been covered, the COVID-19 pandemic greatly expands discussions on this topic. Updated throughout, this new edition includes expanded coverage of Black Lives Matter, sexual harassment, the social construction of immigration, and other topics. A new section on logic, reasoning, and verification of facts is an important new feature for student critical thinking while it addresses the recent politics of truth and lying, including QAnon.

"Marijuana seeks to bring to the reader the whole configuration of this problem, which, like the Sexual Revolution and the New Politics, was at the heart of the alienation felt by many young people during the second half of the 1960s and the fears of social breakdown voiced by many of their elders. The book, first published in 1969, describes the history of marijuana use, how the drug was distributed in this country, the extent and patterns of its use by students and other groups, its possible connection with crime and drug addiction, and the widely differing arguments of its foes and supporters. It is replete with first-hand accounts by people who smoked and sold marijuana, as well as by those who studied the phenomenon from socio logical, psychiatric, legal, educational, and other viewpoints. Much of the work published on marijuana has dealt with its chemical, medical, pharmacological, and agricultural aspects. While these approaches are necessarily touched upon here, the focus of this still timely volume is sociological; it is the only anthology from the period to concentrate on this aspect, to present articles topically, and to deal with all points of view. The new introduction by the editor reviews contemporary uses of marijuana and discusses how attitudes about it have changes. Marijuana is a fascinating and informative book for everyone, and it is a particularly valuable addition to courses in introductory sociology, social problems, social deviance, disorganization, social pathology, and criminology."--Provided by publisher

How do memoirists make their work interesting, daring, exciting, and unorthodox enough so that they attract an audience, yet not so heinous and scandalous that their readers are unable to empathize or identify with them? This book explores the different strategies memoirists use to "neutralize" their alleged wrongdoing and fashion a more positive image of themselves for audiences. The author examines how writers, including James Frey, Susan Cheever, Roman Polanski, Charles Van Doren and Elia Kazan, explain, justify, contextualize, excuse, or warrant their participation in activities such as criminal behavior, substance abuse, sexual transgressions, and political radicalism.

Introduction: the significance of extreme deviance / Erich Goode -- pt. 1. Extreme tattooing. Tattoos are like potato chips - you can't have just one : the process of becoming and being a collector / Angus Vail. Flesh journeys : the radical body modification of neo primitives / Michael Atkinson and Kevin Young. Personal account of a tattoo collector / Angus Vail -- pt. 2. Believing that one has been kidnapped by extraterrestrials. Alien attraction : the subculture of UFO contactees and abductees / Christopher D. Bader. Alien abduction as mythmaking / Stephanie Kelley-Romano. How do people come to believe they were abducted by aliens? / Susan A. Clancy -- pt. 3. Being hugely obese. NAAFA : attempting to neutralize the stigma of the hugely obese body / Debra Gimlin. The fat admirer / Erich Goode. Living in an extremely deviant body / "Sally" and "Diane" -- pt. 4. Believing in white supremacy. White supremacy as extreme deviance / Kathleen M. Blee. Interview with Matthew Hale / Russell K. Nieli, interviewer. What we believe as white racists / Tom Metzger -- pt. 5. Having and endorsing adult-child sexual contact. Pedophiles and child molesters / Keith F. Durkin and Steven Hundersmarck. The world according to NAMBLA : accounting for deviance / Mary deYoung. From victim to offender / "Dave". The boylove manifesto / "jay h" -- pt. 6. Earth First! going to extremes to save the environment. Earth first! deviance inside and out / Rik Scarce. Strategic experimentation and stigmatization in Earth First! / Douglas Lloyd Bevington. I am a lowbagger / Mike Roselle -- pt. 7. Engaging in S&M sexual practices. The pleasure of pain / Marianne Apostolides. Sexual spanking / Rebecca Plante. The S&M experience / "Jackie"