Extreme Deviance

Most primary deviation is of transitory significance and involves a fairly insignificant punishment. Extreme Deviance focuses on behavior, beliefs, and traits that are so serious as to generate, in the words of Edwin Lemert, secondary deviation. Editors Erich Goode and D. Angus Vail tunnel to the core of the subject by emphasizing a set of central lessons, offering edgy, pedagogically dramatic illustrations of principles that are contained in no other collection of readings. The book is complete with vocabularies of motive, deviance neutralization, the acquisition of a deviant identity, and the formation of a deviance subculture.

Author: Erich Goode,D. Angus Vail
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 08/03/2007
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.99h x 7.50w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9781412937221

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2007 pg. 140

About the Author

Angus Vail received his PhD, and was instructor of sociology, at the University of Connecticut; he is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at Willamette University. Vail is the author of several articles on tattooing as deviance, and his dissertation, The Tattoos We Deserve, is being considered by the University of Chicago Press. Erich Goode received his doctorate at Columbia and has taught at half a dozen universities, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and New York University, and is Sociology Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. He is the author of dozens of academic as well as non-scholarly articles as well as 10 books, and the editor of five anthologies, mainly on drug use and deviance. His books include Deviant Behavior (7^th ed.), Prentice Hall, 2005, and Drugs in American Society, McGraw-Hill (6th ed.), 2005.