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This text offers an anthology of newspapers, magazines and journals that examine findings about the nature of deviant behaviour.

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• Unit 1 Deviance
• 1 On the Sociology of Deviance
• from Wayward Puritans
• A Study in the Sociology of Deviance
• discusses the social definition of deviance
• He also describes Emile Durkheim's belief that deviance is both normal and functional in a healthy society
• Durkheim believed that deviance is functional because it sets moral boundaries of acceptable and unacceptable behavior, creates an increased sense of group solidarity, and promotes social change
• 2 Darwin's Truth, Jefferson's Vision: Sociobiology and the Politics of Human Nature, Melvin Konner, The American Prospect, July August 1999
• Sociobiology has emerged over the past quarter century, integrating assumptions of both sociological and biological theories to explain social behavior
• Specifically, sociobiologists assume that human behavior may, in part, have a basis in evolution
• 3 Taboo: Don't Even Think about It!, Michael Ventura, Psychology Today, January February 1998
• Taboos exist in every society, and, at least to some extent, define what a society considers to be deviant or not deviant
• Taboos may be universal to almost all societies, such as is the case with the incest taboo, or taboos may be limited to a specific society or culture. For example, in India it is a taboo to eat beef
• This article discusses a number of American taboos
• 4 Mortality around the World, Lawrence
• The World & I, July 1998
• Death, like birth, is part of the lives of all human beings
• However, each society has different norms and beliefs associated with death
• Lawrence Sullivan deals with the various perceptions and practices associated with death in a number of different societies
• 5 Marks of Mystery
• Psychology Today, July August 1999
• People respond to scars with fear, revulsion, and fascination
• Natural scarring and scarification are discussed within the context of meanings that people attach to such body marks
• While in some societies scars are merely reminders of injury, in other societies scarring, like branding and tattooing, are socially defined as signs of beauty or attraction
• Unit 2 Crime
• 6 Men, Honor and Murder
• Scientific American, Summer 1999
• Why are Southern men more likely than other men and all women to murder other human beings?
• through their research, suggest that there is a "culture of honor" that underlies some high murder rates
• Surveys find that Southerners are more likely than any other regional subculture to favor the use of violence to defend their property, respond to insults, and socialize their children
• 7 We Are Training Our Kids to Kill, Lt. Col
• The Saturday Evening Post, July August 1999
• an expert on why soldiers kill in battle, attempts to demonstrate that we are training our children to kill in the same way that the military desensitizes soldiers in order to train them to kill the enemy
• Grossman blames the mass media, movies, television, and video games for juvenile murder in the United States
• 8 Stopping Abuse in Prison, Nina Siegal, The Progressive, April 1999
• Women inmates across the United States are becoming victims of violent crimes perpetrated by the guards who are sworn to protect them
• It is not unusual for female inmates in our prisons to