Angus Vail received his PhD, and was instructor of sociology, at the University of Connecticut; he is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at Willamette University. Vail is the author of several articles on tattooing as deviance, and his dissertation, The Tattoos We Deserve, is being considered by the University of Chicago Press. Erich Goode received his doctorate at Columbia and has taught at half a dozen universities, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and New York University, and is Sociology Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. He is the author of dozens of academic as well as non-scholarly articles as well as 10 books, and the editor of five anthologies, mainly on drug use and deviance. His books include Deviant Behavior (7th ed.), Prentice Hall, 2005, and Drugs in American Society, McGraw-Hill (6th ed.), 2005.

Introduction: The Significance of of Extreme Deviance - Erich Goode
Publisher¿s Acknowledgments
About the Editors
PART I. EXTREME TATTOOING
Bod Mod to the Max! An Introduction to Body Modification as Deviance
Tattoos Are Like Potato Chips... You Can¿t Have Just One: The Process of Becoming and Being a Collector - Angus Vail
Flesh Journeys: The Radical Body Modification of Neoprimitives - Michael Atkinson and Kevin Young
Personal Account of a Tattoo Collector - Angus Vail
Discussion Questions
PART II. BELIEVING THAT ONE HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED BY EXTRATERRESTRIALS
Being Abducted by Aliens as a Deviant Belief: An Introduction
Alien Attraction: The Subculture of UFO Contactees and Abductees - Christopher D. Bader
Alien Abduction as Mythmaking - Stephanie Kelley-Romano
How Do People Come To Believe They Were Abducted by Aliens? - Susan A. Clancy
Questions
PART III. BEING HUGELY OBESE
Obesity as Extreme Deviance: An Introduction
NAAFA: Attempting to Neutralize the Stigma of the Hugely Obese Body - Debra Gimlin
The Fat Admirer - Erich Goode
Living in an Extremely Deviant Body - "Sally" and "Diane"
Questions
Alien Abductions as Mythmaking - Stephanie Kelley-Romano
How Do People Come to Believe They Were Abducted by Aliens? - Susan A. Clancy
Discussion Questions
PART III. BEING HUGELY OBESE
Obesity as Extreme Deviance: An Introduction
NAAFA: Attempting to Neutralize the Stigma of the Hugely Obese Body - Debra Gimlin
The Fat Admirer - Erich Goode
Living in an Extremely Deviant Body - "Sally" and "Diane"
Discussion Questions
PART IV. BELIEVING IN WHITE SUPREMACY
White Supremacy as Deviance: An Introduction
White Supremacy as Extreme Deviance - Kathleen M. Blee
Interview with Matthew Hale - Russell K. Nieli
What We Believe as White Racists - Tom Metzger
Discussion Questions
PART V. HAVING AND ENDORSING ADULT-CHILD SEXUAL CONTACT
Adult-Child Sexual Contact: An Introduction
Pedophiles and Child Molesters - Keith F. Durkin and Steven Hundersmarck
The World According to NAMBLA: Accounting for Deviance - Mary de Young
From Victim to Offender - "Dave"
The Boylove Manifesto - "jay_h"
Discussion Questions
PART VI. EARTH FIRST! GOING TO EXTREMES TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT
Earth First! An Introduction to the Radical Environmentalist Movement
Earth First! Deviance Inside and Out - Rik Scarce
Strategic Experimentation and Stigmatization in Earth First! - Douglas Lloyd Bevington
I Am a Lowbagger - Mike Roselle
Discussion Questions
PART VII. ENGAGING IN S&M SEXUAL PRACTICES
S&M: An Introduction
The Pleasure of Pain - Marianne Apostolides
Sexual Spanking - Rebecca F. Plante
The S&M Experience - "Jackie"
Discussion Questions