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Tammy L. Anderson is a Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. Her areas of expertise include culture, deviance, music scenes, drug abuse, medicalization, social problems, gender, and ethnography. She has taught traditional lecture undergraduate and graduate classes in deviance, qualitative methods, drugs and society, and introduction to criminal justice. She has also taught an online course in social problems. She has published many articles in these areas as well as three books: Neither Villain nor Victim: Empowerment and Agency among Women Substance Abusers (Rutgers University Press 2008), Rave Culture: The Alteration and Decline of a Philadelphia Music Scene (Temple University Press 2009- winner of the 2010 Charles Horton Cooley prize), and Sex, Drugs and Death: Addressing Youth Problems in America Society (Routledge 2010).