soci 2305 deviance spring 2026
schedule and readings <-Click on schedule for links to readings not in Curra
updated March 22, 2026
data workshops
data workshop one - how deviant is the deviance class?
data workshop two - putting a band-aid on stigma
data workshop three - unmaking sexual deviance
data workshop four - when do we see rape?
data workshop five - assessing drug harm, drug facts, drug deviance
video workshops (password for videos on vimeo.com is students2020)
video workshop one - seeing deviance here and there
video workshop two - what does the new asylums reveal about criminalizing mental illness?
video: the new asylums (2005) | the released (2009) (optional)
video - making & unmaking deviance
video: defining female dysfunction | cured
video workshop three - when a moral panic conjures sexual deviance
video workshop four - the situational rationality of violence
video workshop five - how victims of rape are made to be deviant
video workshop six - waging a war on drugs (the house i live)
video workshop seven - merchants of doubt - answers to video questions
lectures and handouts
when is it not a crime? when the state does it
sketching the sketchy - the complications of elite deviance
the social construction of rape
gaining perspective on deviance
interrogating how we approach mental illness
case study in elite deviance - the deadly decption of big tobacco
judge kessler's opinion in usa v tobacco companies (excerpt)
tobaccos pr campaign - the cigarette papers
tobacco's timeline - the pleasure of smoking as deceptive, deadly, and deviant
read more about it (optional)
deviance as mental disorders
sexual deviance or sexual diversity
sexual violence
baltimore sun analysis on baltimore police dismissed rape cases
violence
drugs
the WHO cocaine report the U.S. didn't want you to know
craig reinarman, crack in the rearview mirror (myths about crack)
why we took cocaine out of soda [but how did it get in there in the first place?]
harm reduction
bellis, hughes, and lowey, healthy nightclubs and recreational substance use
elite deviance
dealing with deviance in pre-modern society