Deviant BehaviorPub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2023.2280100
Dana Fennell, Clay A. Hipke
{"title":"Flying as Self-Expression: Autonomy and Pole Dancing in Strip Clubs","authors":"Dana Fennell, Clay A. Hipke","doi":"10.1080/01639625.2023.2280100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2023.2280100","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTPolitical battles over strip clubs’ existence are informed by research, but existing literature neglects a central component of strippers’ work. This study analyzes strippers’ pole work and heeds dancers’ calls to incorporate their voices. It provides an overview of why strippers engage in this skilled and often voluntary physical labor (drawing from social learning theory), and portrays the functions of poling utilizing concepts from the sociology of work. The study is based on ethnographic data, primarily in-depth interviews with strippers. It develops ideas in the sociology of work by demonstrating how in a non-standard work environment like strip clubs, relative autonomy allowed workers to diversify the end game or work goals despite controlling and self-alienating aspects of the job. Strippers were able to engage in what we refer to as skill optioning (making the most of their skills to leverage gains). The result was that some strippers developed the physical skill of poling and performed for more than monetary rewards; it helped give their work more meaning and enjoyment. Poling built physical capital, minimized emotional labor, developed social networks, and provided psychological benefits. AcknowledgementsThank you to all the strippers and interviewees who shared their stories with us. We appreciate the support of the Committee on Services & Resources for Women at USM. Thanks to the SSGS research group for their humor, support, and feedback during the writing of this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Twenty interviewees were recruited from the same strip club in the southeastern U.S., but the vast majority of those had experience dancing in other clubs. Most interviews took place individually but in a couple instances two dancers were interviewed simultaneously.2 The project was approved by the University of Southern Mississippi’s IRB #:22–1041. As initial interviews were conducted, some strippers did not want to have a record of their participation; therefore, the IRB waived signed documentation of consent. Participants were given a written informed consent form, and they verbally confirmed their willingness to participate when interviewed. At the beginning and end of the interview we discussed what information needed to remain confidential and what (if anything) could be shared using the respondent’s real name, online handle, and/or work alias.3 Since “flow” experiences involve a lack of self-consciousness (Csikszentmihalyi Citation2008), pole dancing did not always lead to a complete experience of this kind.Additional informationNotes on contributorsDana FennellDr. Dana Fennell is a Professor of Sociology whose work focuses on people’s well-being.Clay A. HipkeDr. Clay Hipke is a sociologist with specialties in deviance and sociology of the body.","PeriodicalId":48000,"journal":{"name":"Deviant Behavior","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135539851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deviant BehaviorPub Date : 2023-10-24DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2023.2273904
Devi Sekar, Mohanraj Bhuvaneswari
{"title":"Drug Dependency Due to Traumatic Childhood Experiences and Low Emotional Intelligence of Juvenile Felons in India","authors":"Devi Sekar, Mohanraj Bhuvaneswari","doi":"10.1080/01639625.2023.2273904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2023.2273904","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48000,"journal":{"name":"Deviant Behavior","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135322197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deviant BehaviorPub Date : 2023-10-23DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2023.2271627
Petter Gottschalk
{"title":"Workplace Deviance Investigations: A Case Study of the Application of Maturity Model to a University Investigation","authors":"Petter Gottschalk","doi":"10.1080/01639625.2023.2271627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2023.2271627","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a case study from Norway that supplements previous research in other jurisdictions such as Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom regarding lack of justice when corporate investigators conduct internal examinations in client organizations. The case is concerned with a university researcher who was investigated after allegations of violating the national working environment act. Investigators applied likelihood of fifty percent rather than the criteria of incident beyond any reasonable doubt. There was no real contradiction offered, and many more deviance from a fair process occurred when compared to the public criminal justice system. The presented maturity model with four stages is applied to illustrate the low level of investigative performance in the case. This research does not in any way claim that the presented case is representative of work by corporate investigators conducting internal examinations in client organizations. Nevertheless, this research is important, as it illustrates the lack of justice that is caused by the absence of regulation of the private investigation industry as performed by law firms, audit firms, consulting firms, and others.","PeriodicalId":48000,"journal":{"name":"Deviant Behavior","volume":"21 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135413025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deviant BehaviorPub Date : 2023-10-23DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2023.2272700
Stephen W. Baron
{"title":"Street Youth, Violence, and Hirschi’s Redefinition of Self-Control","authors":"Stephen W. Baron","doi":"10.1080/01639625.2023.2272700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2023.2272700","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe research examines Hirschi’s redefinition of self-control and its link to violence. Utilizing a sample of 287 homeless street youth the paper explores the criminogenic impacts of three different operationalizations of self-control. It investigates the direct effects of bonding self-control, attitudinal self-control, and decisional self-control on violence and assesses the indirect relationships that bonding self-control and attitudinal self-control have with violence through their associations with decisional self-control. Results indicate all three measures of self-control contribute to the understanding of intentions to engage in violence. Further, evidence reveals that both bonding self-control and attitudinal self-control have indirect links to offending through their impact on decisional self-control. Findings are discussed and suggestions for future research offered. AcknowledgementsSpecial thanks to Ashley DePaola for her assistance. The author would also like to express appreciation to the referees and editor for their helpful comments and guidance in improving the article.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Exploratory analysis was undertaken examining alternative coding strategies of the dependent variable (e.g., logging the dependent variable; taking the square root of the dependent variable; recoding the most extreme of the outliers in the dependent variable [those at or above the 90th percentile in the distribution] to the 90th percentile). The results of this process indicated that these procedures produced substantively similar results but showed decreased model fits in each case when compared to the original coding of the dependent variable. Therefore, the decision was made to use the current coding of the dependent variable.2 Hirschi’s own methodological tactic of dichotomizing each indicator of the social bond and then summing the items was also explored. In each case responses of usually/always for the family measures, agree and strongly agree for school, and disagree/strongly disagree for belief were coded as 1 with other categories coded 0. The alpha determining the reliability for this dichotomized additive scale was .72. Throughout the analyses the Likert version of the variable performed better and was ultimately chosen as the preferred measure.3 This variable might be interpreted to be a behavioral measure of self-control. Additional analysis showed that removing this variable from the equations did increase the relationships between the attitudinal self-control measure and violence but did not impact the overall substantive results.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada [435-2017-0188].Notes on contributorsStephen W. BaronStephen W. Baron is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University. His research focuses primarily on homeless street youth and crime and substance abuse. H","PeriodicalId":48000,"journal":{"name":"Deviant Behavior","volume":"59 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135413027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deviant BehaviorPub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2023.2270125
Sara L. Bryson, Erica R. Fissel
{"title":"Is It (Cyber)bullying? Assessing Adult Perceptions of Bullying and Cyberbullying Using a Mixed-Methods Approach","authors":"Sara L. Bryson, Erica R. Fissel","doi":"10.1080/01639625.2023.2270125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2023.2270125","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTDespite decades of research on bullying and the influx of studies examining cyberbullying, there is no universal definition for either term. The lack of clarity in defining these terms may impact individuals’ ability to identify (cyber)bullying. Most prior research on bullying and cyberbullying has surveyed school children, their peers, and teachers about their experiences. However, much less research has examined if members of the general public can identify bullying and cyberbullying outside of the school setting. Therefore, the overall objective of the current study is to investigate adults’ ability to identify bullying and cyberbullying and examine the rationale for why respondents identified – or not – instances of verbal, physical, and cyberbullying. Data were collected from 652 adults aged 18 to 50 years old who were residing in the United States. Results suggest that most respondents identified each scenario as (cyber)bullying, however, the rationale behind their decisions varied. Seven themes were identified (e.g. repetition, power imbalance) as both reasons participants identified a situation as a form of bullying, along with reasons why they did not believe a situation was a form of bullying. Implications for policy, practice, and research are provided. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Ethics approvalThe University of Central Florida provided Institutional Review Board Approval.Consent to participateThe University of Central Florida Institutional Review Board determined the study met the criteria for Exemption. As such, respondents were provided with an Explanation of Research Page and written consent was waived.Notes1 Some respondents chose not to answer this question and others did not answer the prompt provided (i.e., gave nonsensical responses).2 Many responses were coded with multiple themes, thus, the total number of codes were higher than the number of responses.3 See Appendices A through C for more information related to the selected definitions.Additional informationFundingData collection was supported by internal funding provided by the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Central Florida.Notes on contributorsSara L. BrysonSara L. Bryson, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at East Carolina University. Her research focuses on decision-making within the juvenile justice system, juvenile delinquency, and bullying victimization. Her most recent research appears in Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and the Journal of Crime and Justice.Erica R. FisselErica R. Fissel, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Central Florida, with a secondary affiliation with Violence Against Women Research Cluster. Her primary research interests currently focus on interpersonal victimization that occurs in cyberspace, including cyberstalki","PeriodicalId":48000,"journal":{"name":"Deviant Behavior","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135780277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deviant BehaviorPub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2023.2271628
Mallory A. McCord, Jie Yu
{"title":"Abusive Supervision and Burnout: Investigating the Impact of Susceptibility and Exposure to a Stressor","authors":"Mallory A. McCord, Jie Yu","doi":"10.1080/01639625.2023.2271628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2023.2271628","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTDrawing on conservation of resources theory, the purpose of this study was to further our understanding of the relationship between abusive supervision and burnout by examining two variables that likely exacerbate this relationship. Susceptibility to stress (i.e. subordinate’s neuroticism) and exposure to a stressor (i.e. time spent with the abusive supervisor) were hypothesized to magnify the positive relationship between abusive supervision and burnout. Data collected from two samples confirmed the positive relationship between abusive supervision and burnout. However, this relationship appears to be unaffected by the employee’s neuroticism nor time spent with their supervisor. Implications, limitations, and future directions are discussed. AcknowledgementThis project is based on the master’s thesis of Jie Yu.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Ethics approvalThis research was deemed exempt by the IRBs of the University of Central Florida (Sample 1) and the University of Minnesota Duluth (Sample 2).Data availability statementThe data is available upon request from the first author.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the University of Minnesota Duluth’s Chancellor’s Faculty Small Grants Program. The sponsor played no role beyond financial support.Notes on contributorsMallory A. McCordMallory A. McCord is an assistant professor in the Psychology Department at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, USA. She received her PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Central Florida. Her research interests focus on workplace mistreatment and stressors.Jie YuJie Yu is a graduate of the Master of Arts in Psychological Science program at the University of Minnesota, Duluth with a focus on Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Her research interests include workplace stressors and health.","PeriodicalId":48000,"journal":{"name":"Deviant Behavior","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135780248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deviant BehaviorPub Date : 2023-10-17DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2023.2271117
Zhihao Ma, Tzu-Hsuan Liu, Yiwei Xia
{"title":"Individual Stress, Contextual Stress, and Network Attributes on Cyberbullying Perpetration Among Young Adults During the COVID-19 Lockdown","authors":"Zhihao Ma, Tzu-Hsuan Liu, Yiwei Xia","doi":"10.1080/01639625.2023.2271117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2023.2271117","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTGeneral Strain Theory (GST) was applied to understand the emergence of cyberbullying during the COVID-19 lockdown. However, how contextual stress and network attributes contributed to cyberbullying perpetration has yet to be explored. Thus, to fill this gap in the literature, this study surveyed 494 young adults from one college of a university in China during the COVID-19 lockdown. The contextual stress was measured by the average stress reported by each individual’s self-nominated peer. Logit regression with interactive terms was conducted to investigate whether network attributes moderate the stress-cyberbullying nexus. The results revealed that cyberbullying perpetration was directly triggered by individual stress rather than contextual stress. Further, young adults with increased individual stress had a higher probability of cyberbullying perpetration, if their betweenness was high. Notably, for those with elevated betweenness, the association between contextual stress and cyberbullying perpetration was attenuated. Our findings provide novel insights into understanding cyberbullying phenomenon during the pandemic. Roles of individual stress and contextual stress on trigging cyberbully perpetration varied with one’s network position. Both the network analysis and the GST theory had significant potential to be applied in further cyberbullying studies. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Supplementary dataSupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2023.2271117Additional informationFundingThis study was supported by the Project of Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. 21XWC010) and Jiangsu University Philosophy and Social Science Foundation Project (Grant No. 2020SJA0008)Notes on contributorsZhihao MaZhihao Ma is an Assistant Professor at Computational Communication Collaboratory, School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University. His research interests include new media and health communication, psychological network methodology, and psychometrics.Tzu-Hsuan LiuTzu-Hsuan Liu is an Associate Professor at the School of Political Science and Public Administration, Huaqiao University. Her research interests include Criminology, criminal justice, and mental health.Yiwei XiaYiwei Xia is an Associate Professor at the School of Law, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. His research interests include quantitative methods, criminology, criminal justice, and social demography.","PeriodicalId":48000,"journal":{"name":"Deviant Behavior","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136034053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deviant BehaviorPub Date : 2023-10-17DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2023.2271115
Zihao Zhou
{"title":"“Don’t Bother Me Unless You are Good-Quality!” <i>- Youzhi</i> (優質) (Good-Quality) Discourse on Gay Dating Platform in China","authors":"Zihao Zhou","doi":"10.1080/01639625.2023.2271115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2023.2271115","url":null,"abstract":"Using multiple methods and qualitative research design (including analysis of online dating profiles, digital ethnography, and in-depth interviews), I examine the discriminatory nature and mechanism of youzhi (優質), a neoliberal discourse widespread on the Chinese gay dating platform “Blued.” This paper also explores how users interpret the connotations of youzhi and utilize it while justifying and normalizing the usage. My findings consider that the discourse of youzhi can integrate a variety of human qualities and generate a hierarchy with establishing an image of first-class citizens in the Chinese gay community. Specifically on Blued, the connotation of youzhi has been reframed into a one-sided, superficial variant through the site’s pre-configurated attributes and marketing promotions. This underlines the sexual and erotic capital with physical aspects of gay hegemonic masculinity as the currency. Given its discriminatory essence, which could risk the user’s desirability, youzhi is still widely utilized on Blued to deter the ones lacking sexual capital from contacting, promote the user’s image, and attract the ones who meet the stringent beauty standards. Based on my findings, the users rationalize and normalize these actions as solely following the logic of how Blued is configured and what it has constantly promoted.","PeriodicalId":48000,"journal":{"name":"Deviant Behavior","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136033715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deviant BehaviorPub Date : 2023-10-17DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2023.2267727
Jessie Slepicka
{"title":"Environmental Hazards and Structural Covariates of US Homicide Rates: Methodological Considerations When Investigating the “Ecology” of Violence","authors":"Jessie Slepicka","doi":"10.1080/01639625.2023.2267727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2023.2267727","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTEnvironmental hazards such as air pollutants have increasingly been investigated as macro-level correlates of violent criminal activity, including rates of homicide across space. Such efforts highlight the growing appreciation in the social sciences of the interaction between humans and the natural environment, particularly within the subfields of environmental sociology and green criminology. However, while such investigations broaden the scope of relevant social scientific inquiry, they often fail to appreciate the theoretical and methodological contributions from prior crime and deviance scholars. Given the expansive history within the social sciences of investigating structural covariates of homicide rates, this effort seeks to determine whether differential levels of particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters smaller than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) can be observed as unique predictor of lethal violence in the US after simplifying the dimensionality of the regressor space. Results indicate that while air pollution levels share covariate space with population size and density, their combined influence represents a robust predictor of county-level homicide rates in the various spatial econometric models estimated. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 Broadly conceived, green behaviorism is a branch of green criminology that seeks to empirically examine the relationship between exposure to chemical pollutants and criminal behavior, given the vast collection of medical and epidemiological evidence linking such exposure to behavioral changes that generate increased levels of aggression and/or anxiety. Borrowing from psychological/radical behaviorism, which holds not only that human behavior is driven solely by responses to external stimuli, but that no reference needs to be made to psychological processes or mental states, Lynch and Stretsky (Citation2014) argued that crime as a measurable behavioral response could be explained by way of the effect of environmental toxins on a subject’s physiology or physiological state. The green behaviorism position, according to the researchers, is theoretically and empirically useful for social scientists when analyzing the factors that generate criminal behavior and affect its distribution within the environment and/or population. While the current manuscript is engaged in the environmental hazard-homicide relationship at a more methodological level, attention will be given at the end of the work to theoretical explanations, much like Lynch and Stretsky’s “green behaviorism” position, for why an ecological relationship between air pollution and homicide may exist.2 Throughout this article, for the sake of parsimony, the term “air pollution” is considered synonymous, and used interchangeably, with particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters smaller than 2.5 μm (PM2.5). However, it should be noted that prior air pollution-crime investigations have focused on a","PeriodicalId":48000,"journal":{"name":"Deviant Behavior","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136034779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deviant BehaviorPub Date : 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2023.2268253
Ruxandra Mihaela Gheorghe, David Yuzva Clement
{"title":"Weaponized Autism: Making Sense of Violent Internalized Ableism in Online Incel Communities","authors":"Ruxandra Mihaela Gheorghe, David Yuzva Clement","doi":"10.1080/01639625.2023.2268253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2023.2268253","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTMuch attention has been paid to incel communities in recent years. Comprised of involuntary celibate individuals who are dissatisfied with their shared experiences of romantic and sexual rejection, incels blame women and the societal rejection of hegemonic masculinity as the cause of their grievances. Current scholarship has produced conflicting results regarding the prevalence of autism within incel communities when compared to the general population. At the same time, no research to date has explored the intersection of incels and autism using perspectives from individuals in the incel community. Using a critical autism lens, this present study thematically analyzes 20 online incel message boards to explore the sense-making of self-identified autistic incels. Findings indicate that incels’ internalized ableism of autism is employed to categorically justify the victimhood and entitlement that grounds their ideology. This weaponization of autism is then used to promote ableism and networked misogyny. Implications for understanding ableist and misogynistic beliefs associated with inceldom are provided. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 This research uses identity-first terminology in line with autistic advocates’ recommendations to emphasize that autism is an inherent part of one’s identity (Taboas et al. Citation2023).Additional informationFundingThe authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.Notes on contributorsRuxandra Mihaela GheorgheRuxandra M. Gheorghe, MA, MSW, is a social worker and doctoral candidate at Carleton University’s School of Social Work in Canada. Her current research is concerned with articulations of toxic masculinity in direct therapeutic practice.David Yuzva ClementDavid Yuzva Clement, PhD, is an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University’s School of Social Work in Canada. He is also an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT).","PeriodicalId":48000,"journal":{"name":"Deviant Behavior","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136112869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}