Thinking About Deviance - Hardcover

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\Paul Higgins grew up in a family of five children outside of Washington, D.C. His parents, both deaf, taught at Gallaudet University, a university that primarily educates deaf adults. Before attending graduate school in sociology at Northwestern University, where he earned his Ph.D., he taught one year at a state school in Maine that educates deaf children. He now lives in Columbia, South Carolina, with his wife Leigh and their two daughters, Samantha and Cole. He teaches, researches and writes about social life at the University of South Carolina. Among his works are Outsiders in a Hearing World, The Rehabilitation Detectives, Making Disability, Sociological Wonderment, and Understanding Deviance (with Richard Butler).