First, as Howard noted recently to one of the co-authors, he had renewed a conversation with others about the application of a general theory of deviance to the field of criminology. This chapter is revised from the earlier version primarily in two ways. The theoretical foundation laid out by Howard Kaplan is left largely intact from its original publication.

Kaplan, 2003 (original version revised posthumously by Feodor A. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. The chapter concludes with some suggestions for ways to advance the social psychological study of deviance in the future. While it was not possible to present every theoretical perspective that addresses our social psychological understanding of some aspect of deviant behavior, those perspectives that are widely regarded as most productive as well as a representative sample of the range of perspectives that persist in the literature have been presented. In this chapter we draw on empirical research and theoretical works conducted in various subfields of social science and on an integrative theory of deviant behavior first fully developed by Kaplan (Patterns of juvenile delinquency, Sage, Beverly Hills, CA, 1984) and modified over the course of several decades.

Social psychological perspectives on deviance provide discussions of the nature of deviance and explanations of the definition, antecedents, or consequences of deviance that implicate both personal (behavioral or intrapsychic) and social (interpersonal, group, macrosocial) structures and processes.

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