Good Trouble - How Deviants, Criminals, Heretics, and Outsiders Have Changed the

This book is written in praise of the criminal; a unique kind of criminal, who is motivated not by personal gain, but ethical altruism. Deviant heroes are those individuals who violate unjust norms and laws, facing the repercussions of social control, effecting positive social change in the process. Using a method that examines how the biographies of individual deviants intersected with history, it probes how criminals and deviants have been on the leading edge of important, positive social changes and the creation of a more just, fair, and humane society. Brian Wolf concludes with an examination of the problem of conformity and how deviant heroism in everyday life may be a remedy for injustice in micro-level social contexts.

List of contents

Part I: Deviance and Good Trouble
Chapter 1: Deviant Heroism
Chapter 2: Good Trouble in the Sociological Tradition
Part II: Good Trouble against Inequality
Chapter 3: Creative Maladjustment: The Words and Actions of Martin Luther King Jr.
Chapter 4: Disciplined Nonconformists: The Struggle against Racism
Chapter 5: Heretics: Women in Good Trouble
Chapter 6: The Agitators: Labor Trouble
Chapter 7: Truth-Tellers
Chapter 8: Deviant Peacemakers, Lovers, and Dreamers
Part III: Good Trouble and the Individual
Chapter 9: Complicit Conformity
Chapter 10: Good Trouble in Everyday Life

About the author

Brian Wolf is associate professor of criminology and sociology at the University of Idaho.

Summary

This book argues that some of the most important deviants have been at the forefront of positive social change and the creation of a more just, fair, and humane society.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Wolf, Wolf Brian
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781498563444
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6344-4
• No. of pages: 204
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social and cultural history, Police & security services, Civil rights & citizenship, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Human rights, civil rights, Police and security services