Joel Best. Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware. Verified email at udel.edu. Articles Cited by. Title. Sort. ... J Best, RC Bulman, JA Howard, MJ Milligan, R t Serpe, JL Shiao, ... 190: 1991: How claims spread: Cross-national diffusion of social problems. J Best.

Joel Gordon Best (born August 21, 1946) is Professor Emeritus and a Francis Alison Award Winner in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. He specialized in topics such as social problems and deviance. His most recent research focused on awards, prizes, and honors in American culture.

2022年8月25日 · Joel Best received his M.A. and Ph.D. (1971) degrees in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a M.A. degree in history from the University of Minnesota. He taught at Concordia College (Moorhead, MN–1969-70), California State University, Fresno (1970-91), and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (1991-99).

Currently, I am working on what I expect will be my 14th book. In working with my graduate students, I try to give them the sort of freedom I was granted, yet provide considerably more coaching than I received.

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Today, I’m a professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware. My writing focuses on understanding how and why we become concerned with particular issues at particular moments in time–why we find ourselves worried about road rage one year, and identity theft a …

2023年12月19日 · Updated with more than 50 new case studies and examples, this book elucidates the complex, competitive process through which social problems emerge, paying particular attention to how resources and rhetoric affect each stage of the process, Joel Best shows how activists, experts, and their opponents engage in claimsmaking, and how the media ...

ON THE GREEN | Joel Best, a professor of sociology and criminal justice who is widely regarded as a leading scholar in understanding the social construction of social problems, has been selected to receive the 2012 Francis Alison Faculty Award, the University's highest faculty honor.

Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware. Author of Images of Issues, Damned Lies and Statistics, Threatened Children, and others. His contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment (2002) formed the …