By Stuart Whitely, Dennie Briggs and Merfyn Turner

FROM THE PREFACE: Deviance iscommonly regarded as 'badness' and deserving to be treated by punishment and imprisonment, or as 'madness' and requiring treatment by medicines and hospitalisation At the extremes of deviant behaviour this labelling and all that goes with it causes the majority oft h e public few qualms of conscience. The immediate problem is solved in that society is protected from the 'bad' individual by secluding him in prison, whilst the 'mad' individual is saved from the conse- quences of his actions by being secluded in a mental hospital….”

NY. Schocken. 1973.239p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

By Edwin M. Schur

From the Preface: The three types of deviance discussed in this book lie at the borderline of crime.There has long been dispute as to whether they shouldbecon- sidered crimes, sins, vices, diseases, or simply as patterns of social deviance. In each case the offending behavior involves a willing and private exchange of strongly demanded yet officially proscribed goods and services; this element of consent precludes the existence of a victim--in the usual sense of the word. Each of these problems also has certain medical--as well as legal, psychological, and sociological-aspects. Although this complexity has fostered useful research and analysis by specialists in various fields, it has also produced a somewhat confusing range of views as to the methods with which such behavior should be dealt. To the extent that sociologists have studied these borderline problems at all, their goal of detached scientific observation (of "ethical neutrality") has inhibited whatever in- terest they might feel in directly challenging substantive criminal law provisions.

Englewod Clifs, N.J. Prentice:Hall.1965. 186p. CONTAINS MARK-UP