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This is the first book to provide readers with an overall understanding of changing patterns in the extended and conjugal family relationships of the second largest ethnic minority group in the United States.

This classic has been the most authoritative text in the field since 1924. The thoroughly revised Eleventh Edition continues to provide a sound, sophisticated, sociological treatment of the principal issues in criminology.

With summaries, review questions and suggested projects with each chapter and a broad and balanced view of the field, Child Maltreatment makes a splendid text for courses in child abuse.

Bringing critical theory to bear on questions of gerontology, Maugans corrects gerontology's traditional leanings. Aging Parents, Ambivalent Baby Boomers includes reflections on the society rather than just the individual and looks at qualitative as well as quantitative methods.

Interactionism: Exposition and Critique offers a balanced overview of symbolic interactionism from its earliest precursors to its latest proponents and critics.

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Today's criminal justice system is the product of adjustments and reappraisals of policies and practices of the past. The Past Present, and Future of American Criminal Justice highlights how criminal justice has changed and how it continues to change.

Part 1 Introduction: What is Deviant Behavior?Chapter 2 Criminology: An Integrationist PerspectiveChapter 3 Psychological Theories of DeviancePart 4 Traditional Theories of DevianceChapter 5 The Normal and the PathologicalChapter 6 Social Structure and AnomieChapter 7 Illegitimate Means and Delinquent SubculturesChapter 8 Evaluation of Structural-Functionalist and Anomie TheoriesChapter 9 The Theory of Differential AssociationChapter 10 Evaluation of Differential Association TheoryChapter 11 A Control Theory of DelinquencyChapter 12 Evaluation of Social Control TheoryPart 13 Contemporary Theories of DevianceChapter 14 Group Conflict Theory as an Explanation of CrimeChapter 15 A Radical Perspective on CrimeChapter 16 Evaluation of Conflict TheoryChapter 17 Secondary Deviance and Role ConceptionsChapter 18 OutsidersChapter 19 Evaluation of Labeling TheoryPart 20 Studying DevianceChapter 21 Accessing the Stigmatized: Gatekeeper Problems, Obstacles and Impediments to Social ResearchChapter 22 Personal Safety in Dangerous PlacesPart 23 The Deviance-Making EnterpriseChapter 24 Moral Entrepeneurs: The Creation and Enforcement of Deviant CategoriesChapter 25 The Social Construction of Deviance: Experts on Battered WomenChapter 26 The 'Discovery' of Child AbuseChapter 27 The Legislation of Morality: Creating Drug LawsChapter 28 Medicine as an Institution of Social Control: Consequences for SocietyPart 29 Organizational Deviance¿Beyond the Interpersonal LevelChapter 30 The Making of Blind MenChapter 31 Record-keeping Practices in the Policing of DeviantsChapter 32 Constructing Probationer Careers: Revocation as Censure Transformation and Tertiary Deviance in the Deviance Amplification ProcessChapter 33 The In-patient Phase in the Career of the Psychiatric PatientChapter 34 Being Sane in Insane PlacesPart 35 Organizing Deviants¿Subcultures and Deviant ActivitiesChapter 36 The "Mixed Nutters" and "Looney Tuners:" The Emergence, Development, Nature, and Functions of Two Informal, Deviant Subcultures of Chronic Ex-psychiatric PatientsChapter 37 Constructing Women and Their World: The Subculture of Female ImpersonationChapter 38 Into the Darkness: An Ethnographic Study of Witchcraft and DeathChapter 39 The Urban Speed Gang: An Examination of the Subculture of Young MotorcyclistsChapter 40 The Culture of Gangs in the Culture of the SchoolChapter 41 Parade Strippers: A Note on Being Naked in PublicChapter 42 Knives and Gaffs: Definitions in the Deviant World of CockfightingChapter 43 Policing Morality: Impersonal Sex in Public PlacesPart 44 Becoming DeviantChapter 45 Paranoia and the Dynamics of ExclusionChapter 46 Creating Crazies/Making Mentals: The Pre-patient Phase in the Moral Career of the Psychiatric PatientChapter 47 A Model of Homosexual Identity FormationChapter 48 Becoming an Addict/AlcoholicChapter 49 Drifting into Dealing: Becoming a Cocaine SellerChapter 50 Becoming a Hit Man: Neutralization in a Very Deviant CareerPart 51 Managing Stigma/Managing Deviant IdentitiesChapter 52 Stigma and Social IdentityChapter 53 Deviance as Disavowal: The Managment of Strained Interaction by the Visibly HandicappedChapter 54 Return to Sender: Reintegrative Stigma-Management Strategies of Ex-Psychiatric PatientsChapter 55 Double Stigma and Boundary Maintenance: How Gay Men Deal with AIDSChapter 56 Ostomates: Negotiating and Involuntary IdentityPart 57 Transforming DevianceChapter 58 The 'Post' Phase of Deviant Careers: Reintegrating Drug TraffickersChapter 59 Becoming Normal: Certification as a Stage in Exiting from CrimeChapter 60 Recovery through Self-HelpChapter 61 Gaining and Losing

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