Peer-reviewed journals

• British Journal of Sociology
• American Sociological Review
• British Journal of Criminology
• Sociology: the Journal of the British Sociological Association
• Deviant Behavior

Databases

Databases allow you to search for useful journal articles. The following databases will be useful for this module:

• Ebscohost Research Databases - you can search several Ebscohost databases simultaneously to find useful articles. (Be sure to tick the boxes for 'full text' and 'peer-reviewed' (scholarly) articles). Particularly useful Ebscohost databases for this module are:

- Academic Search Elite
- E-journals
- SocIndex

Useful reading:

Theories of deviance

• Taylor, I. R. et. al. (1988) The new criminology: for a social theory of deviance. New York: Routledge.

Deviance & mental health

• Aneshenshel, C. S. et. al. (eds.) (1999) Handbook of the sociology of mental health. Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Books.
• Bowers, L. (2000) Social nature of mental illness. Taylor & Francis.
• Busfield J. (1988) ‘Mental illness as social product or social construct: a contradiction in feminists' arguments?’ Sociology of health and Illness, 10(4) pp. 521-542. [Journal article]
• Prins, H.A. (2005) Offenders, deviants or patients? 3rd edn. London: Routledge.
• Roberts, M. (2005) ‘The production of the psychiatric subject: power, knowledge and Michel Foucault’, Nursing Philosophy, Jan 6(1) pp. 33-42. [Journal article]
• Scott S. (2010) ‘Revisiting the total institution: performative regulation in the reinventive institution,’ Sociology, 44(2) pp. 213-233. [Journal article]
• The Thomas S. Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility - website dedicated to advancing the ideas of Thomas Szasz and their implications.

Prostitution

• Canter, D. et. al. (eds.) (2009) Safer sex in the city: the experience and management of street prostitution. Farnham: Ashgate.
• Outshoorn, J. (ed.) (2004) The politics of prostitution: women's movements, democratic states and the globalisation of sex commerce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Sanders, T. (2004) 'Controllable laughter: managing sex work through humour', Sociology, 38(2), pp. 273-291. [Journal article]
• Sanders, T. (2008) 'Male sexual scripts: intimacy, sexuality and pleasure in the purchase of commercial sex', Sociology, 42(3), pp. 400-417. [Journal article]
  
• Scrambler, G. and Scrambler, A. (eds.) (1997) Rethinking prostitution. Taylor & Francis.
• Scrambler, G. (2007) 'Sex work stigma: opportunist migrants in London', Sociology, 41(6), pp. 1079-1096. [Journal article]
• Weitzer, R. (ed.) (2010) Sex for sale: prostitution, pornography and the sex industry. 2nd edn. New York: Routledge.

Sexual deviancy

• Brickell, C. (2009) 'Sexuality and the dimensions of power', Sexuality and Culture, 13(2), pp. 57-74. [Journal article]
• Chaline, E.R. (2010) 'The construction, maintenance and evolution of gay SM sexualities and sexual identities: a preliminary description of gay SM sexual identity practices', Sexualities, 13(3), pp. 338-356. [Journal article]
• Deshotels, T.H. and Forsyth, C.J. (2008) 'Sex rules: the edicts of income in exotic dancing', Deviant Behavior, 29(5), pp. 484-500. [Journal article]
  
• Ettorre, E. (2010) 'Nuns, dykes drugs and gendered bodies: an autoethnography of a lesbian feminist's journey through 'good time' sociology', Sexualities, 13(3), pp. 295-315. [Journal article]
• Forsyth, C.J. and Simpson, J. (2008) 'Everything changes once you flesh hang: flesh hook suspension', Deviant Behavior, 29(4), pp. 367-387. [Journal article]
• Hubbard, P. (2009) Opposing striptopia: embattled spaces of adult entertainment', Sexualities, 12(6), pp. 721-745. [Journal article]
  
• Kaufman, M.R. (2009) 'It's just a fantasy for a couple of hours: ethnography of a nude male showbar', Deviant Behavior, 30(5), pp. 407-433. [Journal article]
  
• Kwong-Lai Poon, M. and Trung-Thu Ho, P. (2008) 'Negotiating social stigma among gay Asian men', Sexualities, 11(2), pp. 245-268. [Journal article]
• Markle, G. (2008) 'Can women have sex like a man? : sexual scripts in sex and the city', Sexuality and Culture, 12(1), pp. 45-57. [Journal article]
  
• Rogers, W. S. (2001) The psychology of gender and sex: an introduction. Maidenhead: OUP.
• Rosario, V.A. (2002) Homosexuality and science: a guide to the debates. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO.
  
• Smith, C. (2007) One for the girls: the pleasures and practices of reading women's porn. Bristol: Intellect.
  
• Weitzer, R. (ed.) (2010) Sex for sale: prostitution, pornography and the sex industry. 2nd edn. New York: Routledge.
• Williams, L. (ed.) (2004) Porn studies. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.

Drug and alcohol use

• May, C. (2001) 'Pathology, identity and the social construction of alcohol dependence', Sociology, 35(2), pp. 385-401. [Journal article]
• Measham, F. et. al. (1994) 'The normalization of recreational drug use amongst young people in north west England', British Journal of Sociology, 45(2), pp. 287-312. [Journal article]
  
• Parker, H.J. (2002) 'The normalization of of 'sensible' recreational drug use: further evidence from the north west England longitudinal survey', Sociology, 36(4), pp. 941-964. [Journal article]
• Sanders, B. (2005) 'In the club: ecstasy use and supply in a London nightclub', Sociology, 39(2), pp. 241-258. [Journal article]
  
• South, N. (2002) 'Drugs, alcohol and crime', in Maguire, M. et. al. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology. 3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 914-944.
• Valentine, K. (2007) 'Methadone maintenance treatment and making up people', Sociology, 41(3), pp. 497-514. [Journal article]

Suicide

• Isambert, F.A. (1993) 'Durkheim's sociology of moral facts', in Turner, S. (ed.) Emile Durkheim: sociologist and moralist. Taylor & Francis.
• Liebling, A. (1992) Suicides in prison. Taylor & Francis.
• Thompson, K. (2002) Emile Durkheim. Rev. ed. Taylor & Francis.