Sex, Drugs, and Death: Addressing Youth Problems in American Society explores how youth lifestyles, identity pursuits, behaviors and activities produce a wide range of social problems in contemporary society. The book focuses on the interconnections between three of the most significant youth issues: sexuality, substance use and suicide. The book pays special attention to the unique pursuits of young people and the locations in which they interact, including virtual places like Facebook and more actual ones such as high school, college, and nightclubs. Patterns among females and males of...

In this collection of 48 reprinted and completely original articles, Tammy Anderson gives her fellow instructors of undergraduate deviance a refreshing way to energize and revitalize their courses. First, in 12 separate sections, she presents a wide range of deviant behaviours, traits, and conditions. Second, her pairing of 'classic' and 'contemporary' viewpoints about deviance and social control not only 'connects' important literatures of the past to today's (student) readers, her 'connections framework' also helps all of us see social life and social processes more clearly when alternative...