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6. Cohen studied
- moral panics and folk devils
- moral panics and the old folk
7. Downs and Rock found that
- grwoing long hair
- cannot predict label = deviant career
- deviance turning into another form of deviance
8. Labelling theorists argue that being labelled
- changes reactions
- causes a self fullfilling prophecy
- causes a good view of self
9. Who sees labelling as a positive
- Braithwasite
- Tripplett
- Lemert
10. labelling theory is deterministic
- once labelled will reoffend
- once labelled will not reoffend
11. moral entrepreneurs
- moral creusade change belief in whom benefit applied
- are below those
12. primary deviance
- the act itself easy rationalised - don't see self deviant
- deviance labelled result of societal reaction being caught involve stigma, Master staus
13. Becker notes...
- control agencies themselves may try and gain more power
- control agencies themselves may try and lose power
14. who argues that law enforcement look at certain 'types'
15. majuna users developed a.......
- deviant subculture
- conforming subculture
16. moral entrepreneuars cause:
- Police gain a key role in maintaining
- creation of ousiders 'outlaws' deviants, expansion of social control agency to enforce rules
- expansion of social control agency to enforce rules
17. class bias, wc areas fitted police more arrests
18. who found the increase in USA for young deviants to be seen as evil- relabelled offences ie. truancy
- Lemert
- Triplett
- Jock Young
19. The labelling theory
- fails to explain 3rd deviance
- fails to explain why they commit primary deviance in the first place
- fails to explain why they committ secondary deviance in the first place
20. ex convicts
- find hard to emply
- easy to employ
