Children's peer culture, as it is nourished in those spaces where grownups cannot penetrate, stands between individual children and the larger adult society.

There are a range of roles that can be played by ethnographers in field research.

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The book presents all the procedures involved in diagnosis, using not only radiological and histological techniques, but also modern immunohistochemical and scintigraphic methods.

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This text is the industry standard for publishing the most recent and relevant articles in the field.

The text's current, comprehensive coverage includes both theoretical analyses and ethnographic illustrations of how deviance is socially constructed, organized, and managed.

Although field research is seldom safe, convenient, or above professional criticism, this volume demonstrates that it is vital for providing a fuller understanding of deviant and criminal populations.

The Adlers describe the work, lives, and careers of these four groups that labor in organizations that never close, with shifts scheduled around the clock and around the year.