Interactionist Explanations of Crime and Deviance

1. Who stated the idea of primary and secondary deviance? (5, 6)
5. Who says that a deviant is simply someone to whom a label has been successfully applied to? (6)
7. what is secondary deviance the result of? (8, 8)

2. Who argues that the labelling theory is guilty of over-romanticising deviance and blaming the agencies of social control for causing crime? (4, 8)
3. What does Becker say the behaviour of the less powerful is subjected to? (7, 12)
4. What do interactionists believe deviance is due to? (9)
6. What is the term for when society interprets all actions and motives in the context of the label? (6, 6)
8. Who said that there is no such thing as a deviant act because no act is inherently criminal or deviant in itself, only when it is labelled as such. (6, 6)

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