Interactionism and Labelling theory Flashcards
Social construction of crime
BECKER (1963)
A deviant person is someone whos label has been succesfully applied
Police steryotypes
CICOUREL: the negation of justice
Officers typifications (stereotypes) of the typical criminal lead to them concentrate on types of people that are more likely to offend.
Who discovered two types of deviance?
LEMERT
Primary Deviance
Deviant acts that have not been publicly labelled as criminal.
Secondary Deviance
Deviant acts and individuals that are labelled.
Reintegrative shaming
BRAITHWAITE (1989)
Reintegrative shaming
Punishes them in a way that strengthens their bonds with society.
Disintegrative shaming
Punishment which isolates the individual and causes secondary deviance.
what does Douglas say about (suicide)
Rejects the use of official statistics when examining suicide.
PLATT view in moral entrepreneurs
Juvénile délinquants, campaign by upper class Victorian moral entrepreneurs, wanting to protect younger people