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Are reports of the ´death of deviance´ premature? This collection brings together leading international scholars to analyse uses of the ´deviance´ concept to argue its vitality and show its possible utility in a variety of fields including religion, education and media narratives.

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Introduction: Tales of Death and Deviance; Michael Dellwing, Joseph Kotarba and Nathan Pino PART I: THE DEATH OF DEVIANCE? 1. The Meaning and Validity of the Death of Deviance Claim; Erich Goode 2. The Critical Role of Deviance in Society; Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler 3. The Deviance Bubble; Joel Best 4. The ´Death of Deviance´ and Stagnation of Twentieth Century Criminology; Mark Horsley 5. Subcultures and Deviance; J. Patrick Williams PART II: PRODUCTIVE DEVIANCE 6. Debating the Death of Deviance: Transgressing Extremes in Conspiracy Narratives; Daniel Dotter 7. Religious Deviance; Robin D. Perrin 8. The New Moral Entrepreneurs: Atheist Activism as Scripted and Performed Political Deviance; Lori L. Fazzino, Michael Ian Borer and Mohammed Abdel Haq 9. The School to Prison Pipeline and the ´Death of Deviance´ in the American Public School System; Scott Wm. Bowman 10. For These People it is Almost Too Late: German Citizenship Education, Islam, and the Construction of Normativity and Deviance; Jessica A. Brown 11. The Mass Killer´s Search for Validation Through, Infamy, Media Attention, and Transcendence; Jennifer Lynn Murray PART III: DOING DEVIANCE BETWEEN TEACHING AND RESEARCH 12. The Didactic Relevance of the Death of Deviance Debate; Susan Day, Joseph A. Kotarba 13. ´Deviance´ is for Undergrads, ´Social Control´ is for Grad Students; Michael Dellwing 14. Deviance and Social Justice; Nathan Pino

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"Contributors offers a fascinating discussion of the nature and significance of deviance in contemporary sociology. ... the combination of voices, perspectives, and interesting case studies provides an interesting introduction and/or continuation for people interested in deviance or debates about the usefulness of the concept. ... The Death and Resurrection of Deviance represents a useful addition to the ongoing evolution of sociological practice and debate." (J. E. Sumerau, Symbolic Interaction, 2016)

"Students and scholars will find here a collection that digs deep into the core of the criminological project by examining the history, politics, challenges and, ultimately, ongoing relevance of studying social rule-breaking. This is a valuable survey of the field that restates the value of thinking about social deviation - offering thought-provoking analyses of the thorny question of how it is that behaviour can be condemned or celebrated. The editors have gathered a diverse and valuable set of contributions in the case for and against the study of deviance, deftly highlighting its sustained utility and profound relevance to our understanding of social harm and justice today." - Rowland Atkinson, University of York, UK.

"In Death of Deviance, the editors and contributors consider the meaning of ´deviance´ across the long sweep of academic inquiry and political culture, from the whiff of stern condemnation that the concept sometimes carries to the sociological imagination that, at its best, it embodies. As their nuanced analysis shows, ´deviance´ has time and again emerged as the crux where sociology intersects criminology, where pluralism confronts absolutism, where moral evaluation meets situational appreciation. Ultimately, this provocative book makes one thing clear: The sociology of deviance is dead; long live the sociology of deviance!" - Jeff Ferrell, Texas Christian University

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