Crime and Deviance - Interactionism

• Interactionists seek to ask how and why some people and actions come to be labelled as criminal or deviant - and what effect this has on those who are labelled 
• Looks at how and why certain groups are defined as deviant and the effects of such a definition 

Becker

• Argues that just because somebody breaks a rule it doesnt mean others will define it as deviant 
• Somebody has to enforce the rule/draw attention to the deviant act
• If the label is…