Interactionist Theory of Crime and Deviance
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- Interactionist Theory of Crime and Deviance
- Becker and Lemert - all of us commit a deviant act at some point but we still see those who get caught as different, this is because of labelling.
- Box found that people in a jury had actually fiddled more money than a theft sent to jail for stealing money.
- Lemert found that only one tribe in the Northern Pacific Coastal Indians which placed importance of speech making know what stuttering was while others didn't.
- If a child showed any defect then parents would label them and cause them to stutter.
- Beckar - there is no such thing as a deviant act, deviance is that which is labelled so.
- Beckar uses the term master label to describe labels such as criminal that override all previous statuses.
- These can lead to self-fulfilling prophecies.
- Beckar uses the term master label to describe labels such as criminal that override all previous statuses.
- Deviance is context specific, based on what Thomas calls "definition of the situation."
- Mead sees that humans are constantly negotiating definitions of situations.
- Young;s study of HIppy cannabis users showed that labelling of the drug users by the police actually increased their drug use.
- Goffman suggests that the abnormal are labelled as deviant or subhuman as means of controlling or socially excluding them.
- We all like to see ourse;ves as normals and tend to avoid, segregate and stereotype those regarded as different.
- - Doesn't explain motivations of deviants and criminals.
- - Blames labellers and portrays deviants as innocent victims.
- - Doesn't explain why agents of social control act the way they do.
- - Weakness in the concept of deviance, attempted to be strengthened Lemert (primary and secondary deviance.)
- Becker and Lemert - all of us commit a deviant act at some point but we still see those who get caught as different, this is because of labelling.
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