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2 books match the query 'Deviant behavior in mass media'

cover of CRIMINAL CONVERSATIONS: Victorian Crimes, Social Panic, and Moral Outrage

CRIMINAL CONVERSATIONS

Victorian Crimes, Social Panic, and Moral Outrage

Edited by Judith Rowbotham and Kim Stevenson

The Ohio State University Press, 2005

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cover of Marginal Conventions: Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Social Deviance

Marginal Conventions

Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Social Deviance

Clinton R. Sanders

University of Wisconsin Press, 1990

Marginal Conventions contains twelve essays by social scientists centering around the general connections between popular culture and deviant behavior. In addition to speaking to the commonsensical view that exposure to representations of misbehavior makes people misbehave, this collection focuses on media presentations of crime, violence, and villainy; the utility of deviance theme for societal elites; and the "taste publics" centered around disreputable products and rituals. 
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