Transgression

Transgression may refer to:

Legal, religious and social

 * Sin, a violation of God's Ten Commandments or other elements of God's moral law
 * 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
 * Transgressions: Volume Two, a short story collection by Stephen King and John Farris
 * Transgressive fiction, a literary style

Film, television, music, and art

 * Transgressive art
 * Transgression (1931 film), a 1931 American film directed by Herbert Brenon
 * Transgression (1974 film), a 1974 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young
 * Transgression (2011 film), a 2011 film starring Michael Ironside, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Jonathan Keltz, and Carlos Bardem
 * Transgression (2017 film), a 2017 Bulgarian film directed by Val Todorov
 * Cinema of Transgression, a film movement using shock value and humor
 * Transgression (album), 2005 release from industrial metal band Fear Factory