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One of America's foremost experts on deviance, Joel Best, explores the history of the study of deviance in this short, highly accessible supplementary text. Joel Best covers the emergence of anomie theory in the 1950s, the rise of labeling theory in the 1960s, and the shifts in the field as it came under criticism from other theoretical perspectives.Best, Joel is the author of 'Deviance Career of a Concept', published 2003 under ISBN 9780534570019 and ISBN 0534570011.
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