"Is there a genetic predisposition to crime? Should mental illness be taken into account? Do family and social environments have a role? Do people become abusers because they have been abused? How can people who do terrible things consider themselves good people? What should som…
Sexual Deviance in Health and Aging: Uncovering Later Life Intimacy explores life course health experiences and unmet care needs of populations perceived as sexually deviant in the United States--back cover.
Sexual Deviance in Health and Aging: Uncovering Later Life Intimacy explores life course health experiences and unmet care needs of populations perceived as sexually deviant in the United States--back cover.
Sexual Deviance in Health and Aging explores how social and cultural perceptions of sexual deviance can shape and be shaped by health and aging. The authors analyze how people get labeled as sexually deviant because of growing older and other factors, and how this stigma impacts…
Constructing a rich tapestry of example and experience spanning eight centuries, Palmer's fascinating account details lives of exclusion and challenge, as the "night travels" of the transgressors clash repeatedly with the powerful conventions of their times. Nights of liberation…
Constructing a rich tapestry of example and experience spanning eight centuries, Palmer's fascinating account details lives of exclusion and challenge, as the "night travels" of the transgressors clash repeatedly with the powerful conventions of their times. Nights of liberation…
The dynamic nature of deviance -- Being deviant -- Power, social networks, and organizational deviance -- Mental disorders -- Predatory violence -- Sexual violence -- Suicide -- Sexual diversity -- Drugs and drug taking. "The Relativity of Deviance is a primer on the constructi…
"The Relativity of Deviance is a primer on the constructivist perspective on deviance--the idea that deviance cannot be explained in terms of absolutes, nor can it be understood apart from its social setting. It explores some of the most frequent contexts for deviant behavior-- …
"The Relativity of Deviance is a primer on the constructivist perspective on deviance--the idea that deviance cannot be explained in terms of absolutes, nor can it be understood apart from its social setting. It explores some of the most frequent contexts for deviant behavior-- …
Durch Normen wird gesellschaftliches Zusammenleben ermöglicht und reguliert. Welche Handlungen als Transgressionen von Normen etikettiert und sanktioniert werden, ist das Resultat sozialer Aushandlungsprozesse. Transgression und Normdevianz können dabei sowohl das bestehende Nor…
Durch Normen wird gesellschaftliches Zusammenleben ermöglicht und reguliert. Welche Handlungen als Transgressionen von Normen etikettiert und sanktioniert werden, ist das Resultat sozialer Aushandlungsprozesse. Transgression und Normdevianz können dabei sowohl das bestehende Nor…
This bold new book proposes a completely new discipline - "the psychology of malefaction," a frank study of the role of evil in human hehavior that does not explain an act of murder, for example, as simply a symptom of the murderer's psychosis. Having been long successful in exp…
