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
- Who gets labelled?
- 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
- Lemert: Primary and secondary deviance
- 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
- Atkinson: coronders' commonsense knowladge
- The construction of crime
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