Labelling theories

Question 1

How does decriminalisation reduce labelling and crime?

Answer 1

decriminalising minor offences would be many fewer young people are labelled as criminals(possession of cannabis)

Question 2

What do diversion policies aim to do?

Answer 2

keep an offender out of the justice system so as to avoid labelling them as criminals, some are informal when police use their discretion nit to charge someone, others are formal like requiring an offender to attend an anger management programme to avoid prosecution

Question 3

What are the two types of shaming or labelling?

Answer 3

Disintegrative shaming and Reintegrative shaming

Question 4

What is Disintegrative shaming?

Answer 4

where both the crime and the criminal are labelled as bad and the offender is excluded from society, this can push them into secondary deviance

Question 5

What is Reintegrative shaming?

Answer 5

labels the act but not the criminal, avoids stigmatising the offender as evil while still encouraging them to repent and encouraging others to admit them back into society

Question 6

Are these policies effective?

Answer 6

crime control policies based on labelling theory can deal successfully with minor offences and young offenders, avoid labelling people as criminals and keeping them out of the justice system they avoid pushing individuals into a deviant career