Author: Hendershott, Anne,
Title: The Politics of Deviance.
Description: San Francisco, Encounter Books, (2002). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Pressure groups have profoundly changed our society's norms of right and wrong. Advocacy organizations promote the. medicalization of drug use, political groups have defused the strong sanctions punishing the pedophile, proponents of assisted suicide call it just another treatment available to the discriminating patient. We are left rudderless as we try to steer a course through an increasingly complex social world. Hendershott asserts the value of social norms and a common commitment to honoring them.

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