Social control agencies (police etc) label certain groups as criminal. (Briar) found that decisons to arrest were made on class, ethnicity, dress etc.
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Typifications
Police use typifications (sterotypes) to decide to stop 'delinquents'. WC juveniles are more liekly to be arrested, while UC juveniles are less liekly to fit the typification and have parents that could negotiate
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Social Construct of Crime Statistics
WC people fit police typifications, so police patrol only WC areas, so crime statistics are not a true value of crime pattern. The 'dark figure' is the unrecorded and undetected crime
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Primary Deviance
deviant acts that have not been publically labelled (mainly trivial and uncaught)
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Secondary Deviance
results from social labelling, labelling someone as an offender can involve stigmatising and excluding them from normal society.
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Self-fulfilling Prophecy
being labelled may provoke a crisis for an individuals self-concept and lead them to live up to their label (secondary deviance). Social reaction may cause an outsider status and could join a deviant subculture
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Youngs Hippie's
Drugs were intially just a part of the hippy lifestyle, but after police persecution and labelling (social reaction) they retreat into closed groups and deviant subcultures were drugs became the main activity
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Deviance Amplification Spiral
in an attempt to control deviance, it in fact amplifies by trrying to force control and engaging in more deviant behaviour.
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Cohens Mods and Rockers
Media exageration and distortion causes moral panic. Moral entrepaneurs call for a 'crack down' - police arrest youths. Demonising the youth marginalsises them further resulting in more deviance
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Meaning of suicide
Douglas: interactonalists are interested in deviant behvaiour such as mental illness. To undertant suicide, we must
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Lamert
suggests those who are socially outcast are labelled as mentally ill, and this illness becomes a mater status
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Police use typifications (sterotypes) to decide to stop 'delinquents'. WC juveniles are more liekly to be arrested, while UC juveniles are less liekly to fit the typification and have parents that could negotiate
Back
Typifications
Card 3
Front
WC people fit police typifications, so police patrol only WC areas, so crime statistics are not a true value of crime pattern. The 'dark figure' is the unrecorded and undetected crime
Back
Card 4
Front
deviant acts that have not been publically labelled (mainly trivial and uncaught)
Back
Card 5
Front
results from social labelling, labelling someone as an offender can involve stigmatising and excluding them from normal society.
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