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Deviance and social control : who rules? / Helen Marshall, Kathy Douglas, Desmond McDonnell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: South Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2007.Description: 242 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0195553012 (pbk.)
  • 9780195553017 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HM661 .M36 2007
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Contents:
1. Summary and outline -- 2. Theories of deviance -- 3. Kinds of society theories -- 4. Kinds of rules stories : labelling and political economy -- 5. Feminism, Foucault, postmodernism, struggle over rules -- 6. The 'death' of deviance? -- 7. Law and deviance -- 8. Prisons -- 9. Bodies and rules -- 10. Minds and rules : sanity and madness -- 11. Rules about drugs -- 12. Rules about sex -- 13. Terrorism.
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Books Books Main Campus Library University of Eastern Africa, Baraton Main Stack HM 661 .M36 2007 c.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 70556
Books Books Main Campus Library University of Eastern Africa, Baraton Main Stack HM 661 .M36 2007 c.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 70557

Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-236) and index.

1. Summary and outline -- 2. Theories of deviance -- 3. Kinds of society theories -- 4. Kinds of rules stories : labelling and political economy -- 5. Feminism, Foucault, postmodernism, struggle over rules -- 6. The 'death' of deviance? -- 7. Law and deviance -- 8. Prisons -- 9. Bodies and rules -- 10. Minds and rules : sanity and madness -- 11. Rules about drugs -- 12. Rules about sex -- 13. Terrorism.

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