Criminal Justice

• Three themes illustrate Erikson's basic argument:

  • The author examines three “crime waves” which took place in the first century of settlement and suggests that the styles deviation a community experiences has something to do with the way it visualizes the boundaries of its cultural universe.

  • Next, he calculates crime rates for one region of the colony in order to test the notion that the number of deviant offenders a community can afford to recognize is likely to remain stable over time.

  • Finally, he reviews the Puritan attitude toward deviation and asks whether the ideological views which once sustained this attitude remain an important part of the context in which we deal with deviant behavior in our own day.

• In a new Foreword to the Classics Edition, Kai Erikson reintroduces Wayward Puritans nearly forty years after its 1966 publication. Dr. Erikson describes the changes made in this Classics Edition and his reasons for doing so, and justifies the changes he purposely chose not to make.

• In a new Afterword, also written by Kai Erikson, the author offers new conclusions, fresh insights, and noteworthy reflections on his work and its impact forty years after its original publication.

Foreword to the Classics Edition.


Preface.


1. On the Sociology of Deviance.


2. The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay.

Issues in Criminal Justice/Special Topics  (Criminal Justice)

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  Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance
  Erickson
  ©1986 | Prentice Hall | Paper | Out of Print
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Kai T. Erikson uses the Puritan settlement in 17th-century Massachusetts as a setting in which to examine several ideas about deviant behavior in society. Combining sociology and history, the author draws on the records of the Bay Colony to illustrate the way in which deviant behavior fits in the texture of social life generally.

The main argument of Wayward Puritans is that deviant forms of behavior are often a valuable resource in society, providing a point of contrast, which is necessary for the maintenance of a coherent social order. In a new Afterword, the author offers new conclusions, fresh insights, and noteworthy reflections on his work and its impact forty years after its original publication

“I keep coming back and coming back in my writing and teaching to WAYWARD PURITANS. Kai Erikson's deep appreciation of the ritual dimensions of social life remains a refreshing alternative to rational-choice reductionism. And for social scientists who have recently discovered 'symbolic boundaries,' the idea was already here. My advice to each new cohort of aspiring social observers: read WAYWARD PURITANS.”
Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University

“WAYWARD PURITANS is a true sociological classic. Kai Erikson has produced a brilliant theory of social deviance as well as one of the most remarkable attempts to identify boundaries as a critical sociological phenomenon. One of the most spectacular products of the Durkheimian tradition, this is sociology at its best.”
Eviatar Zerubavel, Rutgers University

“Sociological classics speak to all people at all times about the social condition of humanity. For almost forty years, WAYWARD PURITANS has thrown light on that condition. In the new millennium we need that light, for our moral boundaries have shifted radically. Kai Erikson's classic helps explain those shifts, and, explaining them, relates the state of our society to our own moral dilemmas. It is a great book that speaks to us more loudly and clearly today than ever before.”
Barry Schwartz, University of Georgia

“Boundary crises come in all flavors. This book describes both the Puritan instance and the general theory. Erikson came up with a fundamental discovery of human life. It's a great theory and a great book, as important now as when it first came out.”
Albert J. Bergesen, University of Arizona

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Ethics in Criminal Justice, A Scenario Based CD-ROM, 9/E
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TIME: Criminal Justice, Special Edition
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