ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook on Deviance brings together original contributions on deviance, with a focus on new, emerging, and hidden forms of deviant behavior. The editors have curated a comprehensive collection highlighting the relativity of deviance, with chapters exploring the deviant behaviors related to sport, recreation, body modification, chronic health conditions, substance use, religion and cults, political extremism, sexuality, online interaction, mental and emotional disorders, elite societal status, workplace issues, and lifestyle. The selections review competing definitions and orientations and a wide range of theoretical premises while addressing methodological issues involved in the study of deviance. Each section begins with an introduction by the editors, anchoring the topics in relevant theoretical and methodological contexts and identifying common themes as well as divergence.
Providing state-of-the-art scholarship on deviance in modern society, this handbook is an invaluable resource for researchers and students engaged in the study of deviance across a range of disciplines including criminology, criminal justice, sociology, anthropology, and interdisciplinary departments, including justice studies, social transformation, and socio-legal studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section I|44 pages
Defining and Studying Deviance
chapter 3|10 pages
Bridging Normative and Reactivist Perspectives
section II|53 pages
Sport and Deviance
chapter 6|7 pages
“Who’s Going to Protect this House?”
section III|39 pages
Leisure and Deviance
section IV|46 pages
Substance Use
section V|32 pages
Religion and Cults
section VI|35 pages
Politically Marginalized Populations
section VII|41 pages
Sexuality and Deviance
section VIII|65 pages
Online Deviance
chapter 28|13 pages
The Emergence of Sexting Inside and Outside of the United States
section IX|79 pages
Stigmatizing Health and Body Conditions
chapter 34|12 pages
Acting Out at the Medico-Legal Borderland
chapter 36|12 pages
The Defamed Deranged of Gotham
section X|78 pages
Elite and Occupational Deviance