Labelling Theory and Crime
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- Created on: 02-02-15 12:58
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- Labelling Theory
- Becker
- A deviant= someone to whom the label is successfully applied
- Moral entrepreneurs lead crusade to change laws
- New laws lead to; creation of new outsiders, expansion of social control
- Piliavin and Briar
- Police decision to arrest youths based off physical cues
- Usually gender, class and ethnicity
- Time and place of crime effect decision
- Cicourel
- Police officers create typifications, creating class bias
- Working class areas fit typifications, made more arrests therefore confirming streotypes
- Justice is negotiable
- Lemert
- Primary and secondary deviance
- Primary deviance- acts that aren't publicly labelled
- Secondary deviance- result of societal reaction, criminal is publicly labelled
- Leads to control of people's identity and a self fulfilling prophecy
- Cohen
- Attempt to control crime worsens it, in a cycle
- Folk Devils and Moral Panic
- Media exaggerated crime, calling for a crackdown
- Created upward spiral of deviance amplification
- Braithwaite
- Positive function of labelling= shaming
- Disintergrative shaming excludes criminal
- Reintegrative shaming encourages forgiveness
- Becker
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