A Political Analysis of Deviance: Third Edition

This book illuminates the importance of studying deviance and diversity as politics, and how we might transcend the current vulgar debate over freedom fighters versus terrorists. A Political Analysis of Deviance continues to challenge the "freak" of the week approach to the study of deviance, and challenges scholars to resist the role of being zoo-keepers with the "deviants" as the "objects" captured in the zoo. As we encounter more terrorism, war and unending conflicts over what is deviant, it may be time again to listen to the powerful voices in this book. They explore issues of intent and consequence, shifting moral boundaries via differences in time and space, and factors such as moral entrepreneurs, social movements, organizations, the state, and globalization. In the new foreword, Pat Lauderdale raises questions about the current usefulness of the approach and examines political life and its relationship to the study of deviance that often are ignored or suffocated before they become public.