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 ...
The horrifying experience of Child Q, a 15-year-old girl who was subjected to a strip search by police officers in her school in Hackney, London, is a harrowing example of how British society ...
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.