What about Mozart? What about Murder?: Reasoning from Cases

by Howard S. Becker

Book Overview

In 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end of his lecture, a distinguished colleague standing at the back of the room, puffing a cigar, looked at Becker quizzically and asked, "What about murder? Isn't that really deviant?" It sounded like Becker...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022616649X
• ISBN13: 9780226166490
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"