Labelling/interactionist(action Theories Of Crime And Deviance)

Question 0

What type of methods do they like to use?

Answer 0

Qualitative approach such as informal interviews, observation and personal documents

Question 1

Why do interactionist reject OCS and structural causes of crime?

Answer 1

They argue that official crime statistics underestimate crime and so is asocial
Construction

Instead they look at the ways in which crime and deviance is socially constructed

Question 2

How does Becker explain the nature of deviance being socially constructed?

Answer 2

Becker maintains what we count as crime and deviance is based on subjective decisions made by moral entrepreneurs

Question 3

Deviancy is simply forms of behaviour

Answer 3

That powerful agencies of social control label as such societal reactions

Question 4

What example can be used to represent the nature of deviance being socially constructed in terms of agents of social control?

Answer 4

Psychiatrist have created mental illnesses such as nightmare disorder

Question 5

As a result what examples does Becker give to the fact that crime and deviance is culturally and historically relative

Answer 5

Marijuana use and homosexuality and prostitution

Question 6

What do ethnometholodgist state and name the 3 conceptual artist

Answer 6

Ethnomethodologisyt argue ‘deviance is in the eye of the beholder’

Some art critics would see conceptual artist Tracey emin and Webster and noble as deviant or sick where as other would celebrate it as original and inspirational