interactionist theory - social action theory

Question 1

what is the labelling theory?

Answer 1

due to the fact crime and criminals are a social construct that we create via social interaction that by labelling them as criminals it causes them to become it

Question 2

lemerts assumptions?

Answer 2

-to understand criminality we must focus on how actions/people are labelled as crime
-arugues labelling causes a self-fullfilling prophecy of crime

Question 3

key terms - differential/selective enforcement

Answer 3

differential enforcement - when certain groups are labelled as criminals so police treat them differently
selective enforcement - when police dont treat all crimes/people the same

Question 4

piliavin and briar findings (1984)

Answer 4

found arrests are due to physical features/attributes creating self-fullfilling prophecys