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What About Mozart? What About Murder?

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

What About Mozart? What About Murder?

By Howard Saul Becker

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About the book

In 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end of his lecture, a distinguished colleague standing at the back of the room, puffing a cigar, looked at Becker quizzically and asked, "What about murder? Isn't that really deviant?" It sounded like Becker had been backed into a corner. Becker, however, ...Show more

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9780226166490

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The University of Chicago Press

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2014

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What About Mozart? What About Murder?

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