This best-selling text offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of deviance and is noted for its blend of style and substance.

Deviant Behavior covers a wide spectrum of theories of deviance, and analyzes numerous specific deviant behaviors. The author uses an abundance of research data, including many that debunk our common assumptions about deviant behavior. Students are exposed to the full range of theories and data about deviance, and are challenged to think about and evaluate their own biases and preconceptions.

• Provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of all aspects of deviance.
• Asks students to analyze their own assumptions about deviant behavior.
• A lively writing style, real-life vignettes, critical analyses of theories and data, and student-oriented examples help lead to greater understanding of the material presented.
• A unique organization. Traditionally, deviance texts are divided into only two parts, with a few theory chapters in the first part and then multiple chapters on diverse forms of deviant behavior lumped together into the second part. In this edition, Part I contains the theory chapters, and Parts II-VI are divided into five distinct parts as follows: (1) Interpersonal Violence, (2) Self-Targeted Deviance, (3) Diverse Lifestyles, (4) Drug Use, and (5) Inequality in Deviance.
• Connection between general theories and concrete deviances. The theories in the behavior chapters (Chapters 4-15) are shown how they are related to the general perspectives and theories in the first three chapters enabling students to make connections.
• A presentation of new, updated materials on important and interesting topics. Key examples include how the pursuit of the American Dream leads to deviance, why practice is required to commit suicide, who the swingers are, how today’s young gays see themselves in the same way as their straight peers do, why prescription-drug abuse is soaring, and how the drinking age law unintendedly contributes to binge drinking.
• The “Global Perspective” sections are found in each deviant behavior chapter (Chs. 4-14) compare deviance in the United States to deviance in other parts of the world–a critically important approach in the globalization of our lives and society today. The boxes include such deviances as homicide, homophobia, smoking, drinking, and organized crime. 
• “Social Profile” sections are integrated in each behavior chapter (Chapters 4 -15). Each box spotlights a certain group of deviants such as suicide bombers, depressed teens, swinging couples, college binge drinkers, corporate crooks.
• Two critical thinking questions at the end of each chapter enable students to ponder what they have just learned about the subject and to develop new ways of seeing and understanding it. Such questions include, among others, “If in fighting the war on drugs you had to choose between law enforcement and prevention/treatment, which would you opt for? Why?”
• The theories in the behavior chapters (Chs. 4-14) are shown as related to, rather than independent of, the general perspectives and theories in first three chapters enabling students to make connections.

• A new chapter on Internet deviance. This chapter showcases important and interesting topics on various aspects of cyberdeviance.

Examples include seeking easy money online, searching cyberspace for sex, expressing hate online, and disrupting computer networks.

• A box containing a series of “Myth and Reality” statements appears at the beginning of each of the behavior chapters. These myths and realities are also discussed in the chapter.

Examples include:

Myth: When women kill their husbands, it is mostly because their victims have cheated on them.

Reality: Women rarely kill in response to their husbands’ infidelity. They usually send their husbands to the hereafter as a desperate attempt to get out of an abusive relationship.

Myth: Being more likely to be victims of racism and poverty, African Americans tend more to commit suicide when compared with whites. Reality: The rate of suicide is much higher among whites than blacks in the United States.   

• Interesting subjects crucial to today’s world discussed throughout the text

Examples include: Does swinging destroy marriage?  What are young gays like today? What causes the prescription-drug abuse to soar? How does the drinking age law unintendedly contribute to binge drinking?

• The Ninth Edition continues to be more readable, more comprehensive (covering more specific deviances) and more streamlined (more compact, focused, and integrated) than other competing texts.

Each chapter includes “Summary,” “Further Reading,” and “Critical Thinking Questions.”

I. PERSPECTIVES AND THEORIES.

1. What Is Deviant Behavior?

Conflicting Definitions.

The Positivist Perspective.

The Constructionist Perspective.

2. Positivist Theories.

Anomie-Strain Theory.

Social Learning Theory.

Control Theory.

3. Constructionist Theories.

Labeling Theory.

Phenomenological Theory.

Conflict Theory.

II. INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE.

4. Physical Violence.

Assault and Aggravated Assault.

Who Is More Likely to Kill?

Patterns of Killing.

Characteristics of Homicide.

Mass and Serial Murder.

A Social Profile ofSerial Killers.

A Global Perspective on Homicide.

School Violence.

Stalking.

Hate-Killing

Genocide.

Why Do People Kill?

5. Rape and Child Molestation.

Patterns of Rape.

Consequences of Rape.

The Culture of Rape.

A Global Perspective on Wartime Rape

Why Men Rape Women.

Males as Victims.

Child Molestation.

6. Family Violence.

Myths about Family Violence.

The Extent of Family Violence.

Marital Rape.

Wife Beating.

Child Abuse.

Female Genital Mutilation.

Elder Abuse.

Female Genital Mutilation.

A Social Profile ofFamily Abusers.

Theories of Family Violence.

Social Responses to Family Violence.

III. SELF-DESTRUCTIVE DEVIANCE.

7. Suicide.

Varieties of Suicidal Experience.

Groups with Higher Suicide Rates.

A Social Profile ofSuicide Bombers.

Situational Factors in Suicide.

A Global Perspective on Suicide.

Social Responses to Suicide.

Sociological Theories of Suicide.

8. Mental Disorder.

Popular Beliefs.

Types of Mental Disorder.

Social Factors in Mental Disorder.

A Social Profile of Depressed Teens.

A Global Perspective on Mental Disorder

Societal Responses to Mental Disorder.

Perspectives on Mental Disorder.

IV. DIVERSE LIFESTYLES.

9. Heterosexual Deviance.

Teen Sex.

Extramarital Sex.

Pornography.

Phone Sex.

Nude Dancing.

Sexual Harassment.

The World of Prostitution.

A Global Perspective on Prostitution.

Theories of Prostitution.

10. Gays and Other Victims of Stigma.

Myths About Homosexuality.

Gays and Lesbians.

Same-Sex Practices Among Nonhomosexuals.

Homophobia.

Social Profile of Homophobes.

A Global Perspective on Homophobia.

Other Victims of Social Stigma.

V. DRUG USE.

11. Drug Use.

Drug Use in Perspective.

Illegal Drugs: Their Effects and Users.

Social Dimensions of Drug Use.

Becoming a Drug User.

A Social Profile of Illegal Drug Users.

What Causes Illegal Drug Use?

The War on Drugs.

Abusing Prescription Drugs, Particularly OxyContin.

Smoking Cigarettes.

A Global Perspective on Smoking

12. Drinking and Alcoholism.

The Extent of Drinking and Alcoholism.

Myths About Alcohol Use.

What Alcohol Does to Its Users.

Social Factors in Drinking.

A Global Perspective on Drinking.

What Is Alcoholism?

Becoming an Alcoholic.

College Students and Alcohol.

A Social Profile of College Binge Drinkers.

Women and Alcohol.

What Causes Alcoholism?

Controlling Alcohol Use and Abuse.

VI. INEQUALITY IN DEVIANCE.

13. Privileged Deviance.

What Is White-Collar Deviance?

Corporate Deviance.

A Social Profile of Corporate Crooks.

Occupational Deviance.

What Makes White-Collar Deviance Unique?

Causes of White-Collar Deviance.

Governmental Deviance.

A Global Perspective on Official Corruption.

Official Ways of Neutralizing Deviance.

Causes of Governmental Deviance.

14. Underprivileged Deviance.

Robbery.

Auto Theft and Carjacking.

Burglary.

Shoplifting.

Organized Crime.

A Global Perspective on Organized Crime.

VII. WILD FRONTIER

15. Internet Deviance

Seeking Easy Money Online

Searching Cyberspace for Sex

Expressing Hate Online

Disrupting Computer Networks

A Global Perspective on Cyberdeviance

Deviance  [TEXTS]   (Sociology)

Alex Thio is Professor of Sociology at Ohio University. Born of Chinese parentage in Penang, Malaysia, he grew up in a multicultural environment. He acquired fluency in Mandarin (modern standard Chinese), Malay, and Indonesian. He also picked up a smattering of English and Dutch. He took French and German in high school and college.

Professor Thio attended primary school in Malaysia and high school in Indonesia. He then came to the United States and worked his way through Central Methodist College in Missouri, where he majored in social sciences. Later, he studied sociology as a graduate student at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and he completed his doctorate while working as a research and teaching assistant.

Professor Thio regularly teaches courses in deviance, introductory sociology, social problems, and criminology. In addition to teaching, he enjoys writing. He is the author of the Sociology: A Brief Introduction, Society: Myths and Realities (Penguin Academic), and Deviant Behavior.

Deviant Behavior, 9/E

Alex Thio, Ohio University

ISBN: 0205512585
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

This best-selling text offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of deviance and is noted for its blend of style and substance.

Deviant Behavior covers a wide spectrum of theories of deviance, and analyzes numerous specific deviant behaviors. The author presents an abundance of research data, including many items that debunk our common assumptions about deviant behavior. Students are exposed to the full range of theories and data on deviance, and are challenged to think about and evaluate their own biases and preconceptions.

As with every edition, this text has been thoroughly updated. Some of these updates include:

• A new chapter on Internet deviance is included. This chapter showcases important and interesting topics on various aspects of cyberdeviance.

Examples include seeking easy money online, searching cyberspace for sex, expressing hate online, and disrupting computer networks.

• A box containing a series of “Myth and Reality” statements appears at the beginning of each of the behavior chapters. These myths and realities are also discussed within those chapters.

Examples include:

Myth: When women kill their husbands, it is mostly because their victims have cheated on them.

Reality: Women rarely kill in response to their husbands’ infidelity. They usually send their husbands to the hereafter as a desperate attempt to get out of an abusive relationship.

• Interesting subjects crucial to today’s world are discussed throughout the text.

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