Good Trouble: How Deviants, Criminals, Heretics, and Outsiders Have Changed the World for the Better

This book is written in praise of the criminal; a unique kind of criminal, who is motivated not by personal gain, but ethical altruism. Deviant heroes are those individuals who violate unjust norms and laws, facing the repercussions of social control, effecting positive social change in the process. Using a method that examines how the biographies of individual deviants intersected with history, it probes how criminals and deviants have been on the leading edge of important, positive social changes and the creation of a more just, fair, and humane society. Brian Wolf concludes with an examination of the problem of conformity and how deviant heroism in everyday life may be a remedy for injustice in micro-level social contexts.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Wolf, Brian
Published: 05/24/2019
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781498563444
Pages: 204
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d