Drawing contributions from across the social and behavioral sciences, including sociology, anthropology, criminology, politics, psychology, and religion, the Encyclopedia of Social Deviance introduces readers to the lively field of rule-making and rebellion that strikes at the core of what it means to be an individual living in a social world.

Table of Contents

• Volume 1
• List of Entries
• Reader's Guide
• About the Editors
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Entries
• A
• Abominations of the Body
• Abuse by Clergy
• Academic Deviance
• Accounts, Sociology of
• ADAM
• Age and Drug Use
• Ageism
• Agents of Social Control
• Alcohol and Crime
• Alcoholism
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Animal Cruelty
• Anomie Theory
• Anonymous
• Argot
• Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring
• Arson
• Atheism
• Authenticity
• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Autoerotic Asphyxiation
• Autoethnography
• B
• Bead Whores
• Bestiality
• Biker Gangs
• Biosocial Perspectives on Deviance
• Bisexuality
• Black Panthers
• Blackmail
• Blindness
• Body Modification
• Bondage and Discipline
• Bookmaking
• Broken Windows Thesis
• Buckle Bunnies
• Bug Chasers and Bareback Sex
• Bullying
• Burglary
• C
• Changing Deviance Designations
• Check Forgery
• Chicago School
• Child Abuse
• Child Sexual Abuse
• Civil Disobedience
• Civilizing Process
• Club Drugs
• Cocaine
• Cockfighting
• Code of the Street
• Cognitive Deviance
• Collecting Data Online
• Conflict Theory
• Conformity
• Constructionist Definitions of Social Problems
• Constructionist Theories
• Containment Theory
• Control Balance Theory
• Control Theory
• Corporate Deviance
• Corruption
• Cosplay and Fandom
• Counterfeiting
• Crime Statistics
• Criminal Lifestyles
• Cross-Cultural Methodology
• Cults
• Culturally Specific Mental Illnesses
• Culture of Poverty
• Cyberbullying
• Cybercrime
• Cybersex
• D
• Deafness
• Death of Sociology of Deviance
• Decriminalization and Legalization
• Defining Deviance
• Deinstitutionalization
• Delinquency
• Designer Drugs
• Desistance
• Deviance in the Academic Profession
• Deviant Career
• Deviant Places
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
• Differential Association Theory
• Digital Piracy
• Discrimination
• Dogfighting
• Domestic Terrorism
• Domestic Violence
• Drag Queens and Kings
• Dramaturgy
• Drift Theory
• Drug Abuse Warning Network
• Drug Dependence Treatment
• Drug Normalization
• Drug Policy
• Drug War (War on Drugs)
• E
• Eating Disorders
• Edge Ethnography
• Edgework
• Elder Abuse
• Embezzlement
• Epidemiology of Crime and Deviance
• Erotica Versus Pornography
• Escorts
• Ethics and Deviance Research
• Ethnography and Deviance
• Eunuchs
• Euthanasia
• Extortion
• F
• Feederism
• Female Bodybuilding
• Female Prostitution
• Feminist Theory
• Fetishes
• Focal Concerns Theory
• Folk Crime
• Fortune-Telling
• Fraud
• Furries
• G
• Gambling Addiction
• Gangs, Street
• Gay Bashing
• Gays as Parents
• Gender and Drug Use
• General Strain Theory
• Goth Subculture
• Governmental Deviance
• H
• Hacking
• Hacktivism
• Hate Crimes
• Hegemony
• Heroin
• HIV/AIDS
• Hoarding
• Homecomer
• Homelessness
• Homicide
• Homophobia
• Homosexuality
• Hooliganism
• Human Sex Trafficking
• Human Trafficking
• I
• Identity
• Identity Theft
• Identity Work
• Incest
• Index Crimes
• Individualism
• Infanticide
• Infidelity
• Informal Social Control
• Institutional Anomie Theory
• Institutional Review Boards and Studying Deviance
• Integrated Theories
• Internet Gambling
• Intersexuality
• Interviews
• K
• Kidnapping
• Ku Klux Klan
• L
• Labeling Approach
• Larceny
• Legal Highs
• Lynching
• Volume 2
• M
• Male Prostitution
• Malicious Software
• Mardi Gras
• Marginality
• Marijuana
• Maritime Piracy
• Marxist Theory
• Masochism
• Masturbation
• Medicalization of Deviance
• Mental Illness
• Mental Retardation
• Metal Culture
• Methamphetamine
• Military Deviance
• Monitoring the Future
• Moral Entrepreneurs
• Moral Panics
• Motor Vehicle Theft
• N
• National Crime Victimization Survey
• National Incident-Based Reporting System
• National Survey of Drug Use and Health
• National Youth Survey
• Necrophilia
• Neutralization Theory
• Normal Deviance
• Normalization
• Norms and Societal Expectations
• Nudism
• O
• Obesity
• Occupational Criminality
• Occupy Movement
• Online Data Collection
• Organized Crime
• Outsiders
• P
• Participant Observation
• Pawnbrokers
• Peacemaking Criminology
• Pedophilia
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
• Performance-Enhancing Drugs
• Phenomenological Theory
• Phishing
• Phone Sex
• Physical Characteristics as Deviance
• Physical Disabilities
• Pica
• Pickpocketing
• Poaching
• Police Deviance
• Police Profiling
• Polyamory and Polygamy
• Ponzi Schemes
• Pornography
• Positive Deviance
• Positivist Definitions of Deviance
• Premarital Sex
• Prescription Drug Misuse
• Primary and Secondary Deviance
• Prison Culture/Inmate Code
• Prison Rape
• Professional Wrestling
• Prohibition
• Property Crime
• Public Sex
• Punishment and Rule Enforcement
• Punk Subculture
• Q
• Qualitative Methods in Studying Deviance
• Quantitative Methods in Studying Deviance
• Queer Nation
• Queer Theory
• R
• Race/Ethnicity and Drug Use
• Racism
• Rape
• Rational Choice Theory
• Rave Culture
• Reintegrative Shaming
• Religiosity and Deviance
• Road Whores
• Robbery
• Roller Derby
• Routine Activity Theory
• S
• Sadism and Masochism
• Same-Sex Marriages
• Satanism
• Secret Deviance
• Self, The
• Self-Control Theory
• Self-Esteem and Deviance
• Self-Injury
• Self-Report Surveys
• Serial Murder
• Sex Discrimination
• Sex Tourism
• Sexting
• Sexual Addiction
• Sexual Harassment
• Shoplifting
• Skinheads
• Social Bonds
• Social Change and Deviance
• Social Control
• Social Disapproval
• Social Disorganization Theory
• Social Learning Theory
• Social Reality Theory
• Socioeconomic Status and Drug Use
• Sociolinguistic Theories
• Solitary Deviance
• Somatotypes: Sheldon, William
• Southern Subculture of Violence
• Spamming
• Sport and Deviance
• Stalking
• Stigma and Stigma Management
• Stolen Goods Network
• Straight Edge
• Stranger
• Street Hustling
• Strippers, Female
• Strippers, Male
• Structural Functionalism
• Subculture
• Suicide
• Suspension
• Swinging
• Symbolic Crusade
• Symbolic Interactionism
• T
• Taboo
• Tattooing
• Tea Party Movement
• Tearooms
• Teen Pregnancy
• Tobacco and Cigarettes
• Total Institutions
• Transgender Lifestyles
• Transnational Terrorism
• Transsexuals
• Transvestism
• Triangulation
• Tribal Stigma
• Twelve-Step Programs
• U
• Underage Drinking
• Uniform Crime Reports
• Urban Legends
• V
• Vandalism
• Vegetarianism and Veganism
• Violent Crime
• Voyeurism
• W
• White Supremacist Groups
• White-Collar Crime
• Workplace Violence