A comprehensive, integrative and accessible overview of the contemporary body of knowledge in the field of social deviance in the 21st century.

The Routledge Handbook on Deviance brings together original contributions on deviance, with a focus on new, emerging, and hidden forms of deviant behavior. The

Deviant behavior is not a subject that you study in school and then file away. It is a study of life and is ever changing. Defining the concept of deviant behav

International legal rules are profoundly embedded in diverse social factors and processes. International law thus often reflects and affects societal factors na

Despite illustrious origins dating to the 1920s, qualitative crime research has long been overshadowed by quantitative inquiry. After decades of limited use, th