Service Activities: Dr. Best is a former President
of the Midwest Sociological Society and the Society for the Study
of Social Problems, and a former Editor of the journal Social
Problems.
Representative Publications:
Joel Best, Threatened Children (1990); University of Chicago
Press
Joel Best, (ed.) Images of Issues (2/e--1995); Aldine de
Gruyter
Joel Best, Controlling Vice (1998); Ohio State University
Press
Joel Best, Random Violence (1999); University of California
Press
Joel Best, Damned Lies and Statistics ( 2001); University
of California Press
Joel Best, (ed.) How Claims Spread ( 2001); Aldine de Gruyter
Donileen R. Loseke and Joel Best (eds.), Social Problems: Constructionist
Readings (2003); Aldine de Gruyter
Joel Best, Deviance: Career of a Concept (2004); Wadsworth
Joel Best, More Damned Lies and Statistics (2004); University
of California Press.
Joel Best, Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People Fall for Fads (2006);
University of California Press.
Joel Best, Social Problems (forthcoming 2007), W.W. Norton