Transgression

Transgression may refer to:

Legal, religious and social

• Sin, transgression against divine law or the law of deities
• Crime, legal transgression, usually created by a violation of social or economic boundary
• In civil law jurisdictions, a transgression or a contravention is a smaller breach of law, similar to summary offence in common law jurisdictions
• Social transgression, violating a social norm
• Relational transgression – violation of implicit or explicit relational rules
• Haram, going beyond Islamic religious restrictions

Science and mathematics

• Transgression map in cohomology
• Transgression (geology), a relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata
• Transgression (genetics) or Transgressive segregation, a peculiar case of heterosis, showing extreme phenotypes in a hybrid offspring

Literature

• Transgressions, a 1997 novel by Sarah Dunant
• Transgressions, a novel based in the English Civil War by Erastes
• ', a short story collection by Stephen King and John Farris
• Transgressive fiction, a literary style