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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;{{Template:Ac}}&#039;&#039;&#039;[&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;https&lt;/del&gt;:&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/&lt;/del&gt;Joel_Best Joel Best]&#039;&#039;&#039;, in-full &#039;&#039;&#039;Joel Gordon Best&#039;&#039;&#039; (born August 21, 1946), is a professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware. He is a prolific author and specializes in topics such as social problems and deviance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;{{Template:Ac}}&#039;&#039;&#039;[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[wikipedia&lt;/ins&gt;:Joel_Best&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;|&lt;/ins&gt;Joel Best&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]&lt;/ins&gt;]&#039;&#039;&#039;, in-full &#039;&#039;&#039;Joel Gordon Best&#039;&#039;&#039; (born August 21, 1946), is a professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware. He is a prolific author and specializes in topics such as social problems and deviance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Among [[MAP]]s, [[AAM]]s and their allies, Best will most likely be known for his 1990 book &#039;&#039;[https://archive.org/details/threatenedchildr0000best/mode/2up Threatened children: rhetoric and concern about child-victims]&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;&lt;/del&gt;. Reviews ([https://sci-hub.ru/10.1016/0190-7409(92)90048-z], [https://sci-hub.ru/10.2307/1387024]) available at Sci-Hub. &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;(Cited in our [[Chronological Archive]]). &lt;/del&gt;[[Bruce Rind]] is known to have cited a shorter publication - Best&#039;s article titled &#039;&#039;[https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02912204 &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Victimization and the Victim Industry]&#039;&#039; (1997).&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&lt;/del&gt;Best, J. Victimization and the victim industry. &#039;&#039;Society&#039;&#039; 34, 9–17 (1997). &amp;lt;https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02912204&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; We strongly recommend this article.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Among [[MAP]]s, [[AAM]]s and their allies, Best will most likely be known for his 1990 book &#039;&#039;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Threatened children: rhetoric and concern about child-victims&#039;&#039; (Cited in our [[Chronological Archive]]).&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&lt;/ins&gt;[https://archive.org/details/threatenedchildr0000best/mode/2up Threatened children: rhetoric and concern about child-victims]. Reviews ([https://sci-hub.ru/10.1016/0190-7409(92)90048-z], [https://sci-hub.ru/10.2307/1387024]) available at Sci-Hub.&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;/ins&gt;[[Bruce Rind]] is known to have cited a shorter publication - Best&#039;s article titled &#039;&#039;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Victimization and the Victim Industry&#039;&#039; (1997).&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&lt;/ins&gt;[https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02912204 Best, J. Victimization and the victim industry.&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;] &lt;/ins&gt;&#039;&#039;Society&#039;&#039; 34, 9–17 (1997). &amp;lt;https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02912204&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; We strongly recommend this article.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Best&#039;s 2001 book &#039;&#039;How Claims Spread: Cross-national Diffusion of Social Problems&#039;&#039;, is cited in our [[MAP Movement]] article. Other publications &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;which may be &lt;/del&gt;of interest &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;include:&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Best&#039;s 2001 book &#039;&#039;How Claims Spread: Cross-national Diffusion of Social Problems&#039;&#039;, is cited in our [[MAP Movement]] article.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;==&lt;/ins&gt;Other publications of interest&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;==&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Joel Best, (ed. with James T. Richardson and David G. Bromley) &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Satanism Scare&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1991). [Editor: The &amp;#039;Satanic Panic&amp;#039; is an important part of historical and [[moral panic]] discussion in relation to MAPs].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Joel Best, (ed. with James T. Richardson and David G. Bromley) &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Satanism Scare&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1991). [Editor: The &amp;#039;Satanic Panic&amp;#039; is an important part of historical and [[moral panic]] discussion in relation to MAPs].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Joel Best, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Damned Lies and Statistics&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (University of California Press, 2001).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Joel Best, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Damned Lies and Statistics&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (University of California Press, 2001).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Joel Best, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Deviance: Career of a Concept&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Wadsworth, 2004).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Joel Best, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Deviance: Career of a Concept&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Wadsworth, 2004).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Joel Best, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Stupidity Epidemic: Worrying about Students, Schools, and America&amp;#039;s Future&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Routledge, 2011).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Joel Best, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Stupidity Epidemic: Worrying about Students, Schools, and America&amp;#039;s Future&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Routledge, 2011).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Joel Best and Kathleen A. Bogle. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[http://library.lol/main/D8E258CD04FE82C2B405B3B98119F66C Kids Gone Wild: From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype Over Teen Sex]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (New York University Press, 2014).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Joel Best and Kathleen A. Bogle. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[http://library.lol/main/D8E258CD04FE82C2B405B3B98119F66C Kids Gone Wild: From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype Over Teen Sex]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (New York University Press, 2014).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Prue: Created page with &quot;{{Template:Ac}}&#039;&#039;&#039;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Best Joel Best]&#039;&#039;&#039;, in-full &#039;&#039;&#039;Joel Gordon Best&#039;&#039;&#039; (born August 21, 1946), is a professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware. He is a prolific author and specializes in topics such as social problems and deviance.  Among MAPs, AAMs and their allies, Best will most likely be known for his 1990 book &#039;&#039;[https://archive.org/details/threatenedchildr0000best/mode/2up Threatened children:...&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;{{Template:Ac}}&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Best Joel Best]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, in-full &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Joel Gordon Best&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (born August 21, 1946), is a professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware. He is a prolific author and specializes in topics such as social problems and deviance.  Among &lt;a href=&quot;/wiki/MAP&quot; class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; title=&quot;MAP&quot;&gt;MAPs&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/wiki/AAM&quot; class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; title=&quot;AAM&quot;&gt;AAMs&lt;/a&gt; and their allies, Best will most likely be known for his 1990 book &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[https://archive.org/details/threatenedchildr0000best/mode/2up Threatened children:...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;{{Template:Ac}}&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Best Joel Best]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, in-full &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Joel Gordon Best&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (born August 21, 1946), is a professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware. He is a prolific author and specializes in topics such as social problems and deviance.&lt;br /&gt;
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Among [[MAP]]s, [[AAM]]s and their allies, Best will most likely be known for his 1990 book &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[https://archive.org/details/threatenedchildr0000best/mode/2up Threatened children: rhetoric and concern about child-victims]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. Reviews ([https://sci-hub.ru/10.1016/0190-7409(92)90048-z], [https://sci-hub.ru/10.2307/1387024]) available at Sci-Hub. (Cited in our [[Chronological Archive]]). [[Bruce Rind]] is known to have cited a shorter publication - Best&amp;#039;s article titled &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02912204 Victimization and the Victim Industry]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1997).&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Best, J. Victimization and the victim industry. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Society&amp;#039;&amp;#039; 34, 9–17 (1997). &amp;lt;https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02912204&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; We strongly recommend this article.&lt;br /&gt;
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Best&amp;#039;s 2001 book &amp;#039;&amp;#039;How Claims Spread: Cross-national Diffusion of Social Problems&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, is cited in our [[MAP Movement]] article. Other publications which may be of interest include:&lt;br /&gt;
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*Joel Best, (ed. with James T. Richardson and David G. Bromley) &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Satanism Scare&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1991). [Editor: The &amp;#039;Satanic Panic&amp;#039; is an important part of historical and [[moral panic]] discussion in relation to MAPs].&lt;br /&gt;
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*Joel Best, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Damned Lies and Statistics&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (University of California Press, 2001).&lt;br /&gt;
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*Joel Best, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Deviance: Career of a Concept&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Wadsworth, 2004).&lt;br /&gt;
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*Joel Best, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Stupidity Epidemic: Worrying about Students, Schools, and America&amp;#039;s Future&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Routledge, 2011).&lt;br /&gt;
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*Joel Best and Kathleen A. Bogle. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[http://library.lol/main/D8E258CD04FE82C2B405B3B98119F66C Kids Gone Wild: From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype Over Teen Sex]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (New York University Press, 2014).&lt;br /&gt;
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