Response perseveration in psychopaths: Interpersonal/affective or social deviance traits?

Starting from research on vigilantism and informal justice in Nigeria, this chapter looks at policing practices in the light of their links to wider practices and repertoires of legitimacy, visibility, knowledge, and punishment used in controlling crime and social deviance and resolving disputes in Africa. These practices include both long-established cultural framings of rectitude and popular legitimacy and practices which appropriate ‘state-ness’, as demonstrated by vigilante groups with whom police forces share a public space.

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Book Review: SOCIAL DEVIANCE-READ THE LABEL THE LABELLING OF DEVIANCE. Edited by Walter R. Gove. New York: John Wiley, 1975. Pp. 313. $15.00. SOCIAL DEVIANCE. By S. Giora Shoham. New York: John Wiley, 1976. Pp. 163. $13.95

Correctional Psychologist ◽

10.1177/009385487800500309 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 283-286

Author(s):

Jack R. McCall

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Social Deviance

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The Social Marketability of Self: Toward a New Theory of Social Deviance

Sociological Focus ◽

10.1080/00380237.1977.10570292 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 263-274

Author(s):

Charles H. Swanson

Keyword(s):

Social Deviance ◽

The Social

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Upright Citizens in Criminal Records: Investigations in Cachoeira and Geremoabo, Brazil, 1780-1836

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.2307/980997 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 38 (2) ◽

pp. 173-184 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Patricia Aufderheide

Keyword(s):

Criminal Justice ◽

Social Stress ◽

Criminal Records ◽

Social Deviance ◽

Criminal Investigations ◽

The Social ◽

Community Changes ◽

Power And Influence

Criminal justice records provide the historian with a wealth of data on social deviance, and on the role of the judiciary in defining and controlling it. They can as well comment on the most invisible group for the social historian: the “innocent bystanders,” the respectable folk who distinguish themselves neither by their power and influence nor by their deviance. This essay illustrates the value of one kind of judicial data, local criminal investigations in Brazil, to provide information on the working citizens of a community. Changes in the characteristics of that population may be indicative of wider social stress in the Brazilian Independence period.

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