The data in Tables 2 and 3 depict the relationship between youth sport participation and type of deviant behavior when the sample is classified by gender. With the exception of school related deviance reported by girls, these data reveal a negative association be- tween youth sport participation and reported deviant behavior across each subsample and for all types of deviant behavior. Boys involved in youth sports exhibit more deviance for each category than do girls. The negative association between youth sport participa- tion and deviant behavior is particularly apparent for boys involved in nonschool related deviance and composite deviance. Further, boy participants reported 15.9% less nonschool deviance and 17.7% less composite deviance than boy nonparticipants