Survey's public perceptions of deviant behavior cross-culturally: in India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Yugoslavia and the United States. This work discovers that the strength of religious belief and urban rural background accounted for major differences in the perception of deviance - when differences were identified.

Graeme R. Newman, Marvin E. Wolfgang

one: Paradigmatic Origins of the Research; two: Deviance, The Public and The Criminal Law; three: Foundations of Deviance Perception; four: Measuring Perceptions of Deviance Cross-Culturally; five: The Sampling of Cultures; six: Comparative Perceptions of Deviance; seven: The Structure of Deviance Perception; eight: Sociological Correlates of Deviance Perception; nine: The Criminal Law and Its Sanctions in Six Cultures; ten: Subcultural Perceptions of Deviance; eleven: Conclusions: Towards Unity...and Diversity