Patrick Lopez-Aguado's research interests include race and incarceration, juvenile justice, youth and street cultures, and urban ethnography. He is the author of Stick Together and Come Back Home: ...

Deviance is one of the best ways to understand what's going on in the world. From the underbelly of the world of hidden lives, such as our recent work on self-injury, The Tender Cut, to the new ...

Kingston University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The horrifying experience of Child Q, a 15-year-old girl who was subjected to a strip search by police officers in her school ...

Jesse M. Smith is Professor of Sociology at Western Michigan University. His research and teaching are centered on secularity and religion, social deviance, self and identity, and qualitative methods.

A sociologist, he challenged conventional thinking on matters as diverse as deviance, art making and marijuana use. He found a particular following in France. By Elsa Dixler Howard S. Becker, an ...