Howard S. Becker’s scientific contributions

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Publications (1)


Outsiders: Studies in The Sociology of Deviance.
  • Article

February 1964

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2,279 Citations

American Sociological Review

Gresham Sykes

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Howard S. Becker

Citations (1)


... As people who have been encouraged through imprisonment to recognise that our sense of 'self' is a complex phenomenon, we have often encountered the fear of 'psychological annihilation' that accompanies the force of penal categorisation, the imposition of its master status -an offender, a criminal (Becker 1963;Tietjen 2019). Insecurity is deeply entangled with the notion of a personal identity. ...

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Insecurity and Fragility: The Perpetual Duo of Precarity for ‘Convict Criminologists’ in a Risk Averse Academy
Outsiders: Studies in The Sociology of Deviance.
  • Citing Article
  • February 1964

American Sociological Review