One of America's foremost experts on deviance, Joel Best, explores the history of the study of deviance in this short, highly accessible supplementary text. Joel Best covers the emergence of anomie theory in the 1950s, the rise of labeling theory in the 1960s, and the shifts in the field as it came under criticism from other theoretical perspectives.
| ISBN: | 9780534570019 |
| Publication date: | 18th May 2003 |
| Author: | Joel Best |
| Publisher: | Wadsworth an imprint of Cengage Learning |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 100 pages |
| Genres: |
Sociology: family and relationships |