The research sought to determine whether factor analysis procedures would indicate that drug use, property crimes, and crimes against persons among boot camp participants represented one factor. The research also examined whether the same sociodemographic and theoretical variables predicted each of these forms of deviance. Results did not support the deviance syndrome perspective. Instead, items measuring each form of deviant behavior loaded on the separate factors of drug use, property crimes, and crimes against persons. Moreover, analyses of elements from control theory, strain theory, and social learning theory indicated that different predictors are relevant to each form of deviance. Findings indicate that drug use and crime are not expressions of an interrelated underlying syndrome. Tables, discussion of study limitations, and 82 references (Author abstract modified)