Interactionist approach to crime

Question 1

Howard becker

Answer 1

Why do some acts and people come to be labelled as deviants or criminals

an act is only deviant when its been labelled and crime is a social construction

agencies of social control use discretion and police has pre existing ideas of the criminal type and criminal behaviour

agencies act as a moral entrepreneur

Labellin -> self fulfilling prophecy -> deviant caeer

Institutions such as prisons help labels stick and ‘ex-con’ is applied when they’re released

becker suggests societal reactions and the application of the label produce more deviance than they prevent, known as master status

when labels become our master status, every other label is gone, we are just seen as a criminal

Question 2

Cicourel

Answer 2

Negotiation of justice- police have typifications of the working and middle class

cicourels study implies crime statistics are social constructions and agencies of social control decide whether or not to proceed on to the next stage