▪ Abstract As an emergent orientation in sociology, criminology, and criminal justice, cultural
criminology explores the convergence of cultural and criminal processes in contemporary …

Background Cutaneous (CL) and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (MCL) are parasitic
diseases caused by parasites of the genus leishmania leading to stigma caused by …

Doing Qualitative Research in Education Settings, Second Edition is a methods book that
speaks directly to qualitative researchers in the field of education, providing a step-by-step …

Neutralizations are important explanations for the rise and persistence of deviant behavior.
We can find many different and overlapping techniques of neutralizations in the literature …

In order to prepare a successful research project, a qualitative researcher often must consult
media documents of various types. Authors David L. Altheide and Christopher J. Schneider …

The experience of becoming an ex is common to most people in modern society. Unlike
individuals in earlier cultures who usually spent their entire lives in one marriage, one …

The creative use of fear by news media and social control organizations has produced a"
discurse of fear"-the awareness and expection that danger and risk are lurking everywhere …

SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR presents a theoretical and empirical overview of the
nature and meaning of deviance, examining in detail a number of forms of behavior …

David Snow and Leon Anderson show us the wretched face of homelessness in late
twentieth-century America in countless cities across the nation. Through hundreds of hours …

This article examines how news reports about terrorism in five nationally prominent US
newspapers reflect the terms and discourse associated with the politics of fear, or decision …