Understanding deviance : a guide to the sociology of crime and rule-breaking /
David Downes, Paul Rock.
- 6th ed.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- 384 p. ; 25 cm.
Previous ed.: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'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.