The Trouble With Evil: Social Control at the Edge of Morality (SUNY Series in Deviance and Social Control) - Tapa blanda

Críticas

"Lemert's method provides two significant conclusions: evil is a special kind of anti-social act that is not subject to ordinary social controls; and sorcery has not been demonstrated to be a form of 'social control' at all, no matter how common that argument may be in the literature--certainly it is not remotely similar to law, as it is known in modern urban societies." -- William G. Davis, Professor Emeritus, University of California-Davis

"The book is an interesting addition to our understanding of a concept--evil--that has received relatively little attention from students of deviance. Conceptualizing evil as a product of social interaction and emergent definitional processes moves our understanding of the (highly value laden) concept of evil away from comparatively fruitless efforts to derive a more concrete operational definition." -- Malcolm D. Holmes, University of Wyoming

Reseña del editor

A broadly based analysis of good and evil grounded in examination of the conceptual, philosophical, and theoretical bases of the study of evil within the social sciences.