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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)

See also

• Deviant (disambiguation)
• Deviation (disambiguation)
• Discrepancy (disambiguation)
• Divergence (disambiguation)

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