RT Book
T1 The World According to NAMBLA: Accounting for Deviance
A1 deYoung, Mary
LA English
YR 1989
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1866142461
AB The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is a pedophile organization that advocates adult sexual behavior with male children. Given the considerable consensus in this society that such sexual behavior with children is exploitative and victimizing in nature, the techniques that NAMBLA uses to justify, rationalize and normalize its philosophy and its members' practices in order to avoid or neutralize censure and stigma, are of particular sociological interest. This paper uses Scott and Lyman's (1968) concept of accounts as a theoretical framework for the analysis of these techniques that are found in the publicly disseminated literature of the NAMBLA organization