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Labelling Theory (Week 10) Flashcards

1
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What is the response to crime?

A

To try to divert people who commit crime from formal justice system

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2
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What is the method of crime prevention?

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Decriminalisation and radical nonintervention

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3
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How should the criminal justice systems operate?

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It should erase stigmatising effect
Have greater tolerance
Minimal intervention

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4
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What is the nature of crime?

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It is determined by labelling process

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5
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What is the cause of crime?

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Stigmatisation and negative effects of labelling?

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6
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What is the focus of labelling theory?

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The relationship between offender and those with power to label

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7
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Key theorists?

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Cohen, Becker, Lemert
Young, Katz, Ferrell
Scher, Mead, Sykes and Matza

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8
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Who was first attributed with the use of the idea of moral panic?

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Young

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9
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Who focuses on understanding 1st act of deviancy?

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Lemert

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10
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When does Lemert say 2nd stage of deviancy occurs?

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A person doesn’t change their self-concept until 2nd deviation: a more permanent committing of crime.
This is when their fundamental re-orientation occurs

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11
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Who says social groups create deviance by making rules?

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Becker

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12
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Becker says what is crucial to explaining criminalisation process?

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The impact of social reaction

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13
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Who are more vulnerable to labels?

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Young people acc: Becker

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14
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Becker says youth should be free from what?

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Official intervention

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15
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What do Sykes and Matza explore?

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Why young people further propel into crime

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16
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Who says all people drift between temporary states of deviancy and non-deviancy?

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Sykes and Matza

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17
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What causes permanency of state of criminality according to Sykes and Matza?

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A reaction from society

18
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What relationship is Katz interested in?

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Between crime and the emotional state of the offender

19
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Who suggests that KNOWLEDGE of the labelling process constitutes impetus to engage in crime?

A

Katz

20
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Who talks about cultural crim, saying an increase of routine in life increases want of excitement to alleviate mundanity?

A

Ferrel

21
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Who talked about moral panic and mods and rockers?

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Cohen

22
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What does Cohen say about cause of crime?

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Over dramatisation and demonisation of small offences and groups = social disorder (shift in norms and values between gens) = clash of values and over reporting = further criminalisation

23
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Marginalisation is a product of changing social order according to who?

A

Cohen

24
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Who relates to Chicago school?

A

Mead

25
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What does mead say about self?

A

It is built through social interaction

26
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Who talks about symbolic interactionist perspective?

A

mead

27
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What’s a key example of labelling theory?

A

Gangs (gang 49)

Jurisdictional response: limit court publicity, finger print restrictions, destruction of crim records at a certain age on proviso of no more offences.

State govn: tattoo removal scheme in vic-80’s

28
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How might labelling play out?

A

Demonisation of groups for small incidents, creates sets of social and structural responses to further criminalise them. = moral panic
(Mods and rockers)

29
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What’s the process of labelling?

A

Social groups create rules - which constitute deviance - apply rules to particular ppl - label outsiders.

30
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What does labelling say is the cause of deviance?

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Deviance is not the quality of the act BUT the consequence of application of others sanctions and responses

31
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What is crime acc to labelling?

A

A social process

32
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What does crime involve?

A

Different perspectives and perceptions of what good and bad behaviour is.

33
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Who defines what crime is?

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Particular powerful relationships, and it is designated by those who have the power to label others

34
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What are the stages of crime?

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Primary deviance - the initial act that causes others to label that person as deviant
Secondary deviance - stable pattern of criminology causes by labelling

35
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Labelling always causes?

A

Negative effects

36
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For labelling to successfully cause crime….

A

That person must “take on” the label

37
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Who is more vulnerable to labels?

A

The powerless and young

38
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What is the deterrence hypothesis?

A

The label of delinquent youth is form of legal punishment that eaters future delinquency by increasing youths perception of risk

39
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What is the stigmatising effect?

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The more frequent and prolonged contact with jury system = more likely offender to accept label = continue criminal acts

40
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What is the focus of labelling theory?

A

It concerns the nature of interaction between: offender-victim-crim justice system

41
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What’s the process of labelling?

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Label attached to act - person responds - behaviour altered to conform - reaffirms label- deviance amplification - career of deviant affected

42
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What is crime defined by? And by who?

A

Social action AND reaction

Conferred by those who have power to label

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