Deviance Amplification Spiral

Question 1

What is a DAS?

Answer 1

Where an attempt to control deviance leads to it increasing not decreasing

Question 2

What does a DAS result in?

Answer 2

Greater attempts to control it

Question 3

Summarise Cohen’s (1972) study of mods and rockers

Answer 3

Used DAS, media exaggeration and distortion began moral panic, moral entrepreneurs called for ‘crackdown’, police - arrested more youths, provoked concern, demonised mods and rockers as folk devils - marginalised further + created more deviance

Question 4

AO3

Answer 4

Functionalists see distance producing social control not control producing more deviance as labelling theorists suggests