Deviant Behavior

Papers
(The TQCC of Deviant Behavior is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Symbolic Meanings Attributed to Drugs by Drug Dealers48
I Did It, But…: Exploring DUI Offender Deviance Rationalization in the Digital Age22
Mechanisms of Perceived Social Norms: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Morality and Outcome Expectations on Prescription Drug Misuse in the Working Population20
Notice of Duplicate Publication – A Descriptive Examination of Prisonization through the Lens of Post-Exoneration Offending19
Let Moderation Be Your Guide: Neighborhood Characteristics Moderate the Relationship between Victimization and Fear of Crime19
Code of Conduct: Using Propensity Scores to Evaluate Prison Misconduct Among Veterans in Prison18
When Economic Sanctions Cause White-Collar and Corporate Crime: The Case of Hidden Russian Ownership Revealed by a Norwegian Insurance Firm18
National and International Mass Shootings: Examining How Social Media Impacts College Students’ Perceptions18
COVID-19 Parental Job Disruptions and Adolescent Suicide18
The Impact of Deviant Social Media Influencers and Consumer Characteristics on Purchasing Counterfeit Goods17
Peeking into the Black Box of Offender Decision-Making: A Novel Approach to Testing Situational Action Theory’s Perception Choice Process17
Recruiting money mules on instagram: a qualitative examination of the online involvement mechanisms of cybercrime17
Just What the Doctor Ordered: Medicinal Alcohol, Opioid Prescriptions, and the Accessibility of Folk Devils16
Large Predator Poaching as Situational Action Fueled by Legal Hunts16
“Dude, you’re a Bitch!” Gang Members’ Internet Banging Masculinity via Bitch Discourse15
Constructing an Investment Scam Detection Model Based on Emotional Fluctuations Throughout the Investment Scam Life Cycle14
Theft by Any Other Name is Still Theft: Examining “Looting” During the COVID-19 Pandemic14
Assessment of a Second-Order Multi-Problem Factor Model Involving Sexual Partners, Marijuana Use, and Post-Arrest Placement Among Persistent Male Adolescent Delinquents14
Polling Pedophilic Preferences: Analyzing Responses to User-Generated Member Polls on a Darknet Child Sexual Abuse Forum13
The Impact of Neighborhood Characteristics on Routine and Gang-Involved Gun Violence: Are Structural Covariates Salient?13
College Students are Helping Each Other Cheat in the Group Chat and Here’s Why13
Bottlenecks and Opportunities for Improvement in Cybercrime Handling: Insights from Dutch Police Practice12
Exploring How Interactions between Race and Social Bonds Influence Substance Use: Findings from a Predominately Black Juvenile Sample11
Perceived Unsafety and Fear of Crime: The Role of Violent and Property Crime, Neighborhood Characteristics, and Prior Perceived Unsafety and Fear of Crime11
In Dubio Pro Reo: The Impact of Certainty and Uncertainty on the Identities and Beliefs of an Organized Crime Member11
An Anatomy of ‘Pig Butchering Scams’: Chinese Victims’ and Police Officers’ Perspectives11
Slow Panic? The Regulation of Salvia Divinorum in Canada, 1991-201911
What Makes Imprisonment More Painful? A Study from the Perspective of the COVID-19 Pandemic11
Notice of Duplicate Publication – Midwives on the Margins: Stigma Management Among Out-of-Hospital Midwives10
“She’s a Flagger, and I’m a Panner”: Exploring the Intricacies of Flagging, Panhandling, and Street Economies10
Age-faking and match-fixing: how table tennis trainers and players face gold-medal pressure in China10
Beyond Dichotomy: Understanding Violent Offending and Victimization Among Immigrant Youths10
Seeding the Grassroots of Research on Furries: Lessons Learned from 15 Years of Creative Knowledge Mobilization, Valuing Community Partnerships, and Correcting the Record on Stigmatized Communities wi10
The General Theory of Crime Revisited: Comparing the Relative Effects of Parental Responsiveness and Parental Behavioral Control on Aggressive and Nonaggressive Antisocial Behavior in Adolescence9
Liminal Athletes: Abusive Hazing and Masculinities in Homosocial Team sports 19
Communities of Inquiry for Offenders: Learning Malware Development on Asynchronous Platforms9
When and How Does Anti-Semitism Occur? the Different Trigger Mechanisms Associated with Different Types of Criminal and Non-Criminal Hate Incidents9
Perceptions of Potential White-Collar Criminals in Romania: A Convenience Theory Approach9
Prevalence of Counterfeit Fashion Goods in a West African Country: Crime in Perspective8
The Coping Strategies of Women Convicted of Homicide in Ghana8
College Students and the Neutralization of Unsafe Sex: Applying a New Model and Establishing a New Research Agenda8
A Socio-Spatial Analysis of Race and Crime in New Orleans7
How Do College Students with Exposure to Bullying Define Bullying: A Qualitative Analysis7
The Anxiety of the Pandemic: Binge-watching, Splurging, Sexting, Hooking Up, and Masturbating among College Students7
A Systematic Literature Review on the Evolving Landscape of the Shadow Economy and Tax Evasion: Global Challenges in the Digital Age7
The Moderating Effects of Dispositions for Crime and Legitimate Coping on Negative Emotions and Aggressive Behavioral Intentions: A Test of General Strain Theory7
A Comparison of Traditional Delinquency and Cyber-Delinquency: General Strain Theory and Community Protective Factors7
Theorizing the Use of Performance Enhancing Substances and Methods in Sport as Four Different Types of Deviant Behavior7
What Counts as “Violence?” Semantic Divergence in Cultural Conflicts6
Exposure to Violence at Home and Bullying in School: A Test of an Additional Layer of General Strain Theory6
The Transgressive Individual in Foucault’s Rights-Punishment Theory - A Record of Self-Resistant Subjectivity in China6
Electric Empires: From Countercultural Movement to Corporate Enterprise6
Assessing Human Trafficking and Cybercrime Intersections Through Survivor Narratives6
Silent Struggles: Family Dynamics and Drug Abuse Reporting Under Harsh Laws and Stigmatizing Perceptions6
The Denier in Chief: Faith in Trump and Techniques of Neutralization in a Pandemic6
Examining the Moderating Effects of Neuroticism and Gender in the Mediation of Deviant Peer Affiliation to Cyberbullying Through Moral Disengagement5
Associations Between Problematic Internet Use and Externalizing Problem Behaviors Among Chinese Rural Adolescent5
Kissing, Grabbing and Grinding: Young Australians’ Personal and Social Norms regarding Nightlife Sexual Behavior5
Accounting For Deviant Behaviors Among Marathon Runners5
Flying as Self-Expression: Autonomy and Pole Dancing in Strip Clubs5
Deviant Labels, Negative Emotions, and Secondary Deviance: Integrating Labeling and Strain Perspectives5
Unpacking the Construction of Online Identities of Hybristophilia Communities on TikTok5
Broadcasting Self-Injury for Change: Exploring the Presentation of Advocacy Strategies on YouTube5
“They Come in the Night and in Large Numbers”: Explaining the Common Features of School Attack and Mass Abduction of Students in Katsina State, Nigeria5
The Evolution of a Social Problem: The Case of the Switchblade Knife5
“A Deviation from the Norm”: Qualitative Scholars’ Perceptions of Self and Belonging in Criminology and Criminal Justice5
Parental Attachment and Digital Self-Harm5
Toward a Universal Definition of Child Sexual Grooming5
Explaining the Unexplainable: Theorizing the Starving of the Disabled Other5
Sakawa in Ghana: The Influence of Weak Ties on Economic Cybercrime Offender Networks4
The Deterrent Role of Social Norms on Tax Evasion in Indonesia4
Identity Interruption Processes Among Young Adults in Community Supervision: Evidence from Interactive Journaling4
Attitudes Toward Violence and Cyberstalking: Gender’s Moderating Role4
Offender Journeys in Restorative Youth Justice Conferencing: The Overlap Between Restorative Justice and Desistance4
‘Life is More Important Than money’: Ransom Mobilization and Delivery to Kidnappers in Northeast Nigeria4
To Be Deviant or Not to Be: Exploring Bar Dancers’ Narratives in Indian Documentaries4
Protection and Obedience. Deviant Masonry, Corruption, and Mafia in Italy4
Modeling the Structural Effects of Residential Instability, Family Disruptions, and Social Support on Neighborhood Crime Perceptions: A Partial Test of Social Disorganization Theory4
Violence on Reddit Support Forums Unique to r/NoFap4
Early Adverse Childhood Experiences and Later Delinquency: Considering the Role of Middle Childhood Risk Factors4
We are All Green: Do Military Experiences and Involvement in the Criminal Justice System Vary Across Race and Ethnicity Among Incarcerated Veterans?4
Cheating with ChatGPT and Techniques of Neutralization4
The Effect of Bully Victimization on Self-Reported Delinquency and Substance Use Using the General Strain Theory Framework: Sex, Race, and Ethnicity Differences4
Emotional Processing and Psychopathy Among Women: A Systematic Review4
From Financial Statement Fraud to Asset Misappropriation: Fraud in Nonprofit Sports Clubs and Cultural Underpinnings4
The Espouse of Women in the Online Romance Fraud World: Role of Sociocultural Experiences and Digital Technologies4
“Successful” Offending: The Salience of Performance Criteria for Understanding and Addressing Crime4
Conservative Anger and Police Misconduct: Exploring Conservative Discussion of Police on Social Media4
Reciprocating Desire in China: A Comparative Approach between High-end and Low-end Sex Workers and Their Clients4
Weaponized Autism: Making Sense of Violent Internalized Ableism in Online Incel Communities3
Determinants of Tax Evasion in the Perspective of Enforcement, Psychology, Trust, and Services3
The Reputation of the Invisibles: The Society of Santa as a Para-Masonic Criminal Entity Above the Calabrian ’Ndrangheta3
Risk Profiles for Cybercrime Victimization: A Conjunctive Analysis of Case Configurations3
Understanding Public Preferences for Policing Homeless Individuals in the United States: Results from a National Survey3
A Content Analysis of the Stigma of Multilevel Marketing Participants on Reddit3
Dating Applications: A Honeypot for Sextortion Victims3
Lifestyle-Exposure Theory as a Framework to Analyze Victimization of People Experiencing Homelessness3
“Some Do it Out of Necessity, Others Because They Like Money and Others Because They Find it Easy” : Motivations for the Involvement of Women in Drug Trafficking in Peru3
Understanding and Mitigating Fraud Risk in Professional Football3
It’s Pride Y’all: Mechanical and Organic Solidarity’s Impact on White LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Deep South3
Order or Stability: The Role of Penal Administrators in the Transformation of Instability within Correctional Institution3
Toward a Typology of Identity Theft Victimization: A Latent Class Analysis3
“It’s Not You, It’s Me”: Examining the Role of Conflicted Relationships, Mental Illness, and Intimate Partner Violence3
Homosexual/Bisexual Men’s HIV or Sexually Transmitted Infection and Their Heterosexual Wives’ Remarriage in China3
Yahoo Boys, Yahoo Parents? An Explorative and Qualitative Study of Parents’ Disposition Towards Children’s Involvement in Cybercrimes3
Drug Dependency Due to Traumatic Childhood Experiences and Low Emotional Intelligence of Juvenile Felons in India3
The Dynamics of Internet Sexual Solicitation: Examining the Criminal Careers of Online Groomers3
Pinpointing Persistent Polluters: Environmental Offending and Recidivist Companies in England3
Accounting for Enhanced Interrogation: Elite Perspectives3
Cybersecurity Expert Perspectives on Data Thieves’ Actions in Digital Environments: Potential Refinements for Routine Activity Theory3
Athletes’ Perceptions and Knowledge About Match Fixing: An Investigation in Six European Countries3
From Outsider to Insider: A Look at the Subculture of Microdosing3
Folk Devils or Moral Entrepreneurs? Gap Bridging in the Social Studies of Pro-ana Communities3
A Social Network Analysis of Large-Scale Wildlife Seizures Made at US Ports of Entry3
“It’s What I Do that Defines Me”: Real Life Superheroes, Identity, and Vigilantism2
Antisocial Behavior Among a Sample of Unauthorized Latinas/os: Exploring Engagement and Key Predictors2
Fraud as Legitimate Retribution for Colonial Injustice: Neutralization Techniques in Interviews with Police and Online Romance Fraud Offenders2
Politicization of Economic Cybercrime: Perceptions Among Ghanaian Facebook Users2
Match-Fixing in European Sports: Attitudes and Experiences2
Cyberbullying Victimization and a Sense of Purpose in Life Among College Students: A Mediation Model of Self-Esteem and Depressive Symptoms2
Making Civil Commitment: A Moral Panic in Washington State2
Public Opinion about America’s Opioid Crisis: Severity, Sources, and Solutions in Context2
The Role of Psychopathic Traits in Subtypes of Family Homicide2
Examining the Relationship Between the Dimensions of the Triarchic Model of Psychopathy and Externalizing Disorders in Male Adolescents2
Exploring the Evolutionary-Biological Basis of Mating Strategies in Submissive Women: A Comparative Study in Three Subgroups of BDSM Sex Practitioners2
Tax Evasion and Benefit Fraud: A Study of the Use of Techniques of Neutralization2
Expertise Integration in Cybercrime Policing: Exploring Civilian Career Lifecycles2
Exploring the Overlap: Suicidal Thoughts and Homicidal Acts Among Incarcerated Offenders2
Legal and Illegal Trade in CITES Protected Mammals – a Closer Look at the European Union2
Hate Speech Propagation and Regulation in WhatsApp Groups: Evidence from Nigeria2
Games to Control Gaming Behavior: An Observation Based on Teenager Families2
Mapping Restorative Justice for Green Crime Offenders: An Empirical Study of Sentencing Outcomes in China2
Ransomware HR: Human Resources Practices and Organizational Support in the Conti Ransomware Group2
Unpacking the Impact of Gratitude on Unethical Behavior2
Gang Violence and Homicide: Do Select Factors that Police Report Contribute to Gang Violence, Specifically Predict Gang Homicide?2
From Nurture to Deviance: A Study on Parenting Style and Juvenile Delinquency2
Self-Control, Cyberbullying, and the Moderating Effect of Opportunity2
Subgroups of Persistent Juvenile Offenders: Latent Class Analysis of Repeated Juvenile Assessment Center Entries2
Poaching of Domestic Protected Species in China: Using Legal Cases to Understand the Poaching of Wild Boars2
Cumulative Ecological Risk and Chinese Adolescent Internet Addiction During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Role of Self-Control and the Moderating Role of Negotiable Fate2
Testing Key Concepts of Three Delinquency Theories in a Multi-National Sample of Adolescents2
The Relationship Between Offense-Supportive Cognitions and Childhood Trauma in Offending and Non-Offending Men with (Exclusive) Pedo-, Hebe-, and Teleiophilia Who Seek Voluntary Treatment2
Cybercriminal Networks and Operational Dynamics of Business Email Compromise (BEC) Scammers: Insights from the “Black Axe” Confraternity2
Profiles of Death Penalty Attitudes: A Latent Class Approach2
Assessing the Gendered General Strain Theory Over Time in Individuals with a Residential Care History2
Dancing Through COVID: The Precarious Working Conditions of Exotic Dancers During the Pandemic2
A Comparative Content Analysis of Pre-Internet and Contemporary Child Sexual Abuse Material2
Mediating the Peer Delinquency–Future Offending Relationship with Legal Cynicism and Moral Neutralization2
Endorsing Deviance: Examining the Influence of Legitimacy and Injustice on Responses to Strain2
Parental Management on Juvenile Delinquency through Low Self-control And Misperception2
“Similar to Legal Companies”: Vendor Brands and Other Aspects of Marketing Communication in the Darknet Drug Trade2
Pedophile Hunters and Performing Masculinities Online2
Exploring the Situational Contexts of Traditional Bullying Perpetration: A Social Bonding Theory Perspective2
Outlaw Ludens: Explaining Traditional Outlaw Motorcycle Club Violence Through Ludology2
The Prevalence of Crime Cases Involving Police Officers in a West African Country2
The Tattoo Environment as a Therapeutic Healing Space for Sexual Assault Survivors2
Strains, Negative Emotions, Propensity for Criminal Coping, and Delinquency: A Moderated Mediation Approach2
Correction2
Preponderant Relationships: Violent Crime, Premises Security Litigation, and Low-Income Housing2
Exploring and Estimating the Revenues of Cybercrime-As-Service Providers: Analyzing Booter and Stresser Services2
How K-pop Fans Utilize Conventional and Subcultural Frameworks to Construct Fan Identities: A Case Study of Seungri and the Burning Sun Scandal2
Age and Type of First Exposure to Pornography: It Matters for Girls and Boys2
Correction2
Is It Still “All the Rage?” Revisiting the Link Between Vaping and Delinquency in Adolescents2
0.057099103927612