Defining, Excusing, and Justifying Deviance: Teen Mothers' Accounts for Statutory Rape

Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency

Gresham M. Sykes, David Matza · American Sociological Review · 1957 · 5.7K citations

Social Sciences, Criminology, Psychology +11

Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive

C. Wright Mills · American Sociological Review · 1940 · 2.7K citations

Humanities, Social Psychology, Philosophy Of Action +5

Intimate matters: a history of sexuality in America

Choice Reviews Online · 1988 · 942 citations

Humanities, History, Sexuality Studies +15

Convicted Rapists' Vocabulary of Motive: Excuses and Justifications

Diana Scully, Joseph Marolla · Social Problems · 1984 · 445 citations

Social Sciences, Criminology, Psychology +4

DENYING THE GUILTY MIND: ACCOUNTING FOR INVOLVEMENT IN A WHITE‐COLLAR CRIME*

Michael L. Benson · Criminology · 1985 · 413 citations

Social Sciences, Criminology, Psychology +11