Joel Best

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Best, Joel; Luckenbill, David F. (1982). Organizing Deviance. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall. ISBN   978-0-13-641605-0. [3]
  • Joel, Best; Best, Eric (2014). The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. ISBN   9780520287525. [4]
  • Best, Joel; Bogle, Kathleen A. (2014). Kids Gone Wild From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype Over Teen Sex. New York: New York University Press. ISBN   978-0-8147-6073-4. [5]
    • Winner Brian McConnell Book Award, International Society for Contemporary Legend Research[ citation needed ]
  • Best, Joel (1998). Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883 . Columbus: Ohio State University Press. ISBN   978-0-8142-5007-5. [6]
  • Best, Joel (2012). Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-27470-9. [7]
  • Best, Joel (2004). More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-93002-5. [8]
  • Best, Joel (2004). Deviance: Career of a Concept. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth. ISBN   978-0-534-57001-9.
  • Best, Joel (2011). Everyone's a Winner: Life in Our Congratulatory Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-26716-9. [9]
  • Best, Joel (2006). Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People Fall for Fads. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-24626-3. [10]
  • Best, Joel (2021). Is that True? Critical Thinking for Sociologists. Oakland, California: University of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-38141-4. [11]
  • Joel Best, Just the Facts: Why We Don’t Always Agree, Oakland: University of California Press, forthcoming in 2015
  • Best, Joel (1999). Random Violence: How We Talk about New Crimes and New Victims. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-21571-9. [12]
  • Best, Joel (2008). Social problems. New York London: W. W. Norton & Company.
    • Best, Joel (2013). Social problems (2nd ed.). New York London: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN   978-0-393-91863-2.
    • Best, Joel (2017). Social Problems (3rd ed.). New York London: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN   978-0-39328341-9.
    • Best, Joel (2020). Social Problems (4th ed.). New York London: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN   978-0-39353304-0.
    • Best, Joel; Monahan, Brian (2024). Social Problems (5th ed.). New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN   978-1-324-08587-4.
  • Best, Joel (2013). Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-27998-8. [13]
  • Best, Joel (2011). The Stupidity Epidemic: Worrying about Students, Schools, and America's Future. Framing 21st century social issues. New York London: Routledge. ISBN   978-0-415-89209-4. [14]
  • Best, Joel (1990). Threatened Children: Rhetoric and Concern about Child-Victims . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN   978-0-226-04425-5. [15]

    • As editor

    • Best, Joel; Harris, Scott R., eds. (2013). Making Sense of Social Problems: New Images, New Issues. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN   978-1-58826-855-6. [20]

    References

    1. 1 2 3 Best, Joel. "Curriculum Vitae". Google Docs. Retrieved October 30, 2025.
    2. ↑ Szetela, Adam (September 27, 2017). "How to write (and publish) like a pro". Times Higher Education (THE). Retrieved October 30, 2025.
    3. ↑ Burn, OlgaS. (January 1982). "Organizing deviance". Journal of Criminal Justice. 10 (3): 251–252. doi:10.1016/0047-2352(82)90046-0.
    4. ↑ Chapman, Bruce (June 2018). "The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion‐Dollar Problem, by JoelBest and EricBest (University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2014), pp. 248". Economic Record. 94 (305): 204–206. doi:10.1111/1475-4932.12404. ISSN   0013-0249.
    5. ↑ Piperides, Kyra (May 3, 2016). "Kids gone wild: from rainbow parties to sexting, understanding the hype over teen sex". Journal of Gender Studies. 25 (3): 352–354. doi:10.1080/09589236.2016.1171942. ISSN   0958-9236.
    6. ↑ Lemons, Shelly L. (2001). "Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883". The Michigan Historical Review . 27 (2): 177. doi:10.2307/20173932.
    7. ↑ Schall, Matthew (2002). "Review of Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists". The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy. 72 (3): 377–379. ISSN   0024-2519.
    8. ↑ Anderson-Cook, Christine M. (2005). "Review of More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues; Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, & Just about Everything Else". The American Statistician. 59 (3): 274–275. ISSN   0003-1305.
    9. ↑ Brueggemann, John (March 2012). "Everyone's a Winner: Life in Our Congratulatory Culture". Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. 41 (2): 181–182. doi:10.1177/0094306112438190f. ISSN   0094-3061.
    10. ↑ Grazian, D. (June 1, 2007). "Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People Fall for Fads By Joel Best University of California Press, 2006. 201 pages. $19.95 (cloth)". Social Forces. 85 (4): 1823–1825. doi:10.1353/sof.2007.0069. ISSN   0037-7732.
    11. ↑ Moody, James (2022). "Review of Is That True? Critical Thinking for Sociologists". Contemporary Sociology. 51 (6): 461–463. ISSN   0094-3061.
    12. ↑ Johnson, John M. (2000). "Book Review". Symbolic Interaction. 23 (1): 83–85. doi:10.1525/si.2000.23.1.83. ISSN   1533-8665.
    13. ↑ Swingle, Joe (July 2009). "Review of Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data by Joel Best". Numeracy. 2 (2). doi:10.5038/1936-4660.2.2.7.
    14. ↑ "The Stupidity Epidemic: Worrying about Students, Schools, and America's Future". Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. 40 (6): 772–772. November 2011. doi:10.1177/0094306111425021c. ISSN   0094-3061.
    15. ↑ Shupe, Anson; Best, Joel (1992). "Threatened Children: Rhetoric and Concern about Child-Victims". Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 31 (2): 243. doi:10.2307/1387024.
    16. ↑ McCallion, Michael (1992). "The Satanism Scare or the Antisatanism Scare". Symbolic Interaction. 15 (2): 237–240. doi:10.1525/si.1992.15.2.237. ISSN   1533-8665.
    17. ↑ Beckett, Katherine (July 1995). "Troubling Children: Studies of Children and Social Problems". Contemporary Sociology. 24 (4): 375. doi:10.2307/2077671.
    18. ↑ Burns, T. J. (September 1, 2002). "How Claims Spread: Cross-National Diffusion of Social Problems. Edited by Joel Best. Aldine de Gruyter, 2001. 306 pp. Paper, $27.00". Social Forces. 81 (1): 376–378. doi:10.1353/sof.2002.0044. ISSN   0037-7732.
    19. ↑ Orcutt, James D. (1991). "Review of Images of Issues: Typifying Contemporary Social Problems". Contemporary Sociology. 20 (2): 327–328. doi:10.2307/2073026. ISSN   0094-3061.
    20. ↑ Walters, Kyla (April 2015). "Book Review: Making Sense of Social Problems: New Images, New Issues". Teaching Sociology. 43 (2): 163–164. doi:10.1177/0092055X15573499. ISSN   0092-055X.
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