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LOCATING DEVIANCE

Gerald Mars is an analyst in the classical traditions of social anthropology and urban ethnography. He is concerned to first understand and then describe, using classification schemes solidly based in the how of crime and deviance rather than by jumping mindlessly into the knee-jerk political reflexes of the why do bad things happen? and how shall society punish what it cannot cope with? questions. This book is essential reading for those including most operational managers who want to take a mental step back and ask fundamental questions about what kind of society are we, that these unplanned outcomes occur? and how is it that we are all implicated in organizations that co-create deviance?.

David Weir, Professor of Management, University Campus Suffolk, UK, and ESC Rennes, France

This volume displays and also integrates Mars major contributions over several decades to general social theory, anthropology and criminology. Combining subtle and meticulous ethnography with historically-informed innovation in theory, these studies provide master classes in using empirical work for the most ambitious theoretical arguments. In showing how deviance is central to social organization, he elegantly turns Durkheims aphorism about the normality of crime into a strategy of general social inquiry into institutional dynamics.

Perri 6, Professor of Public Management, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK

Gerald Mars again demonstrates how, using anthropologys concepts and sensitive participant observation he illumines areas other disciplines find difficult to reach. Via detailed case studies he uncovers the keys to organizational criminality that should appeal to criminologists, anthropologists and managers alike. Easy to read, essentially practical, its final chapter charting the cultural bases of deviance in the financial service industries is a tour de force.

Tom Selwyn, Professor of Anthropology, SOAS, University of London, UK

Gerald Mars has been a lifelong student of human behavior as it is shaped and channeled by the cultures and structures of society. But he is at his anthropological best when he delves into the subcultural nuances and situational complexities of ordinary workers. There are few anthropologists of crime and deviance among ordinary folk. Gerald Mars is a master of research on workplace deviance. He digs deep and provides rich layered explanations that illuminate what we take for granted, yet his analysis is central to how we construct meaningful lives. In this latest work Mars integrates his lifetime observations grounded in empirical ethnographies, but reveals a theoretical progression and a deepening sophisticated analysis. This book not only integrates Mars studies over a lifetime but provides insight into his own academic journey and that alone is a veritable delight.

Stuart Henry, Professor of Criminology, San Diego State University, USA

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Locating Deviance

Crime, Change and Organizations

GERALD MARS
University College, London, UK

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Copyright 2013 Gerald Mars

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Gerald Mars has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.

Notice:
Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Mars, Gerald.

Locating deviance: crime, change and organizations. (Advances in criminology)

1. Employee crimes. 2. Applied ethics. 3. Business ethics.

I. Title II. Series

364.168-dc23

The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Mars, Gerald.

Locating deviance: crime, change, and organizations/by Gerald Mars.

pages cm. (Advances in criminology)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-2789-6 (hardback: alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4094-7148-6 ISBN 978-1-4094-2790-2 (ebook) 1. Criminal psychology. 2. Criminal behavior. 3. Organized crime. I. Title.

HV6080.M363 2013

364.3dc23

2012049947

ISBN 9781409427896 (hbk)

ISBN 9781315592886 (ebk)

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Figures

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Foreword

It is a special pleasure for me to write an introduction to a collection of essays by my friend and mentor Gerry Mars. I first met Gerry when he gave an inspiring visiting lecture on the Masters course in Criminology at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology in 1972. There was, of course, the intrinsic excitement of listening to a speaker share his first-hand experience of fiddling in a large variety of different kinds of job. Such ethnographic reports contrasted sharply with the often dry findings about populations of incarcerated offenders. But the more important message that emerged was that crime was an essential part of everyday life and did not have to be limited to the often voyeuristic studying down of lower-class offenders (typically those who have been least successful). It strengthened my determination to specialize in the study of occupational crime. (In fact, my doctoral studies set out initially to compare dentists and landlords, a project that I, fortunately, abandoned. But that is another story.)

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