Special Issue "Invariances of central Themes of Deviance"

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Über das Selbstverständliche. Invarianzen der Devianzthematisierungen (German)

Self-evidences. Invariances of central themes of deviance

Helge Peters

It is the assumption of this essay that not all types of action are regarded as deviance with the same probability. In order to test this assumption social- and culture-anthropological texts are checked, in which deviance in premodern societies is described. The types of action which are regarded as deviance are registered. Taking in account in addition the types of action which are regarded as deviance in modern societies, it turns out, that murder/homicide, theft and incest are types of actions which are regarded very frequently as deviance - clearly more than probability suggests.

Irritationen, Kommentierungen und Kritik der Überlegungen von Helge Peters zu "Invarianzen der Devianzthematisierungen" (German)

Irritations and comments. A critique of Helge Peters “Self-evidences”

Helga Cremer-Schäfer

The note argues against the criticism offered by Helge Peters concerning studies clearing up the functions of crime and punishment in the process of economic, political and social domination. Instead of looking for universal invariance in defining rule-breaking as deviance, the note suggests to rather focus on continuities of social closure and social exclusion in the "bourgeois society". We are not able to reflect that categorization of human diversity and resistance simply by using a (variable) vocabulary of deviance, which is accompanied by the social production

Die wissenschaftliche Konstruktion von Invarianzen (German)

The scientific construction of invariances

Jan Wehrheim

Helge Peters refers in his article to potential invariances in the thematization of deviance. This paper argues that these invariances are presumably the product of interpretations by the different researchers. They can be read as a product of multistep categorizations which lead to a verbal homogenization of different issues.

Zum Papier "Über das Selbstverständliche" von Helge Peters (German)

About the paper “Self-evidences” by Helge Peters

Reinhard Kreissl

The paper takes a critical look at the concept of universal crime. Within a framework of societal evolution universal processes of societal reproduction can be identified, while types of behaviour, considered as crime are historically contingent. The analytical use-value of this shift from behaviour to social processes can be demonstrated when investigating the use of the social-cognitive contrast categories of conform/deviant in institutional settings for the reproduction of a society´s symbolic order, drawing on the work of G.H. Mead and R. Girard.

Devianz und Herrschaft. Auf der Suche nach universellen Devianzthematisierungen verloren gegangener Zusammenhänge (German)

Deviance and domination. The search for universal articulations of deviance and lost connections

Johannes Stehr

It is proposed to study the articulation of deviance in different societies not as a search for universal forms of articulations of deviance, but to consider the fundamental difference of articulations of deviance in acephalous and state societies. Conceptions of deviance in acephalous societies can be interpreted as resources through which the creation of domination can be prevented, while in state societies conceptions of deviance represent and reaffirm structures of domination.

Die Entdeckung des Selbstverständlichen - auf der Suche nach dem Mehrwert (German)

Discovering the obvious – in search of scientific benefits

Birgit Menzel

The comment objects to Helge Peters´ methodical as well as methodological considerations and questions the scientific benefits of the presented findings.

Punitive Universalien oder Kehrt die Kriminalbiologie zurück? (German)

Punitive universals – comeback of the biology of crime?

Rüdiger Lautmann

The idea of transcultural conditions for penalization reverts into sociological functionalism and natural law. It would be more convincing to explain penal legislation for specific proscriptions. This is shown for the Prussian law against homosexuality in the 19th century. It pretended to be without alternative yet it happened in a contingent way.

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