Deviant Behavior: Patterns, Sources, and Control

by John A. Humphrey and Stuart Hunter Palmer

This book is for the student in the introductory course on deviant be- havior and in related courses. A wide range of ideas and facts is set forth in a way that should be comprehensible to the student without prior knowledge of this area of study. In Chapter 1, "The Nature of Deviance," various ways of defining deviance are explored and one is settled upon: Deviance is behavior that is unusual, not typical, in a society or group. Chapter 2 is devoted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306432854
• ISBN13: 9780306432859
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"