Deviance
# Deviance

Deviance may refer to:

* Deviance (sociology), actions or behaviors that violate social norms
* Deviancy amplification spiral, a cognitive bias (error in judgement): a deviancy amplification term used by interactionist sociologist to refer to the way levels of deviance or crime can be increased by the societal reaction to deviance itself.
* Deviance (statistics), a quality of fit statistic for a model
* Positive deviance
* Paraphilia, historically referred to as sexual deviance
* Bid‘ah, Islamic term for innovations and deviations acts or groups from orthodox Islamic law (Sharia)
