Interactionalism (part two)

Question 1

What does cicourel say about the negotiation of justice?

Answer 1

Officer typifications of typical criminal class leads to concrete types of people that are more likely to offend.

Question 2

Who are more likely to negotiate their way out of criminal proceedings?

Answer 2

Middle class

Question 3

What area do police patrol more intensely?

Answer 3

Working class

Question 4

What is a case study to back up cicourel

Answer 4

Lavina Woodward case
Oxford student
Stabbed boyfriend
Given 10 month suspended sentence
‘intelligent and pretty woman’

Question 5

What is are positives of cicourel?

Answer 5

Law is not fixed, enforces in a discriminatory way.
Stereotypes do exist.

Question 6

What are negatives of cicourel?

Answer 6

Doesn’t explain why working class are labeled as they are originally.

Question 7

What was Cohens study?

Answer 7

The impact of labelling
Study of society reaction to ‘mods and rockers’ disturbances.
Groups of youths at seaside resort
Deviance amplification spiral.
Media exageration began moral panic
Moral entrepreneurs called for ‘crackdown’
Demonising the mods and rockers as ‘folk devils’
This then marginalised them further in more deviance.

Question 8

What does Braithewaite say about disintergrative and reintergrative shaming?

Answer 8

Labelling can have both a negative and positive effect depending on type of shaming.

Question 9

What is disintegrative shaming?

Answer 9

Negative
Crime and criminal are labeled as bad and the offender is excluded from society.

Question 10

What is reintegrative shaming?

Answer 10

Positive
Labels the act and not actor, avoiding stigmatisation
They are forgiven and accepted back into society.

Question 11

What are the positives of Cohen and cicourels explanations?

Answer 11

Emphasises social construction Identifies and reveals the role of the powerful in crime and deviance
Shows how deviant careers can e established.