This is a hardback book called "THE TWO FACES OF DEVIANCE: CRIMES OF THE POWERLESS AND THE POWERFUL" edited by Paul R. Wilson & John Braithwaite; published by University of Queensland Press in 1978 [pp. 309].

This copy is in very good unmarked condition. Inside cover of dust jacket creased.

"One of the main tenets of THE TWO FACES OF DEVIANCE: CRIMES OF THE POWERLESS AND THE POWERFU is that the rule makers are the most flagrant rule breakers in society. Until now few sociologists or journalists have attempted to assess the amount of exploitation that those in power inflicted upon the powerless. In this sense, the book is structured around the dialectics of oppression, exploitation, and privilege.

In the first part of THE TWO FACES OF DEVIANCE there are a number of studies which cogently illustrate how acts defined of as illegal (and deviant) are manufactured by the ruling elite (for example how the police and the media create their own peculiar image of deviance). The second part of the book considers another form of oppression, namely, the methods and mechanics by which the powerful in our society use their positions of privilege to engage in exploitative and often illegal acts...