Topic 2: Interactionalism and the Labelling Theory

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  • Topic 2:  Interactionalism and the Labelling Theory
    • The construction of crime
      • Who gets labelled?
        • Arrests and convictions depend on: interactions with agencies, apperance and background, and the circumstances of the offence
      • Cicourel: the negotiation of justice
        • Officers have typifications, according to class, ethnicity and gender
        • Justice is negotiable: middle-class parents can talk officers out of their childrens' offences
      • The social construction of crime statistics
        • Dark figure of crime:  crime that goes undetected, unrecorded and unpunished making statistics inaccurate
        • Alternative statistics: use of victim surveys and self-report studies
    • The effects of labelling
      • Lemert: Primary and secondary deviance
        • Primary deviance: deviant acts not publically labelled - 'moment of maddness'
        • Master status: secondary deviance is the result of societal reaction - becoming part of their self concept = SFP
        • Deviant career deriving from 'outsider status' leads to deviant subculture
      • Deviance amplification spiral
        • Process in which attempts to control devience only leaads to increased deviance
        • Ex: Mods and Rockers
      • Labelling and criminal justice policy
        • Triplett:  increasingly seeing young offenders as evil/ less tolerance for minor deviance
      • Braithwaite: Reintergrative shaming
        • Reintergrative: labels the act but not the actor - reformation
        • Disintergrative shaming: both crime and criminal labelled and excluded from society
    • Mental illness and suicide
      • Atkinson: coronders' commonsense knowladge
        • Coroner's look at taken-for-granted assumptions to reach verdict - 'typical suicide'
      • Dougless; the meaning of suicide
        • Wheter a death is oficially ruled  suicide depends on social agents interactions - statistics inaccurate
        • e.g. family may be in guilty denial or mortician religious
      • Lemert: Paranoia as a SFP
        • Primary deviance - secondary deviance - social stigma - self-confirmed suspicions - psychiactric intervention
      • Geoffman: Institutionalisation
        • 'mortification of self' + symbolically killing off old identity - 'degregation rituals' in prison, asylum and army institutes

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