Social Construction of Crime

Question 1

Social Construction Acronym

Answer 1

Newburne fell
Down on a Rock and called a
Plummer

Question 2

Newburn

Answer 2

crime is just a label attached to certain forms of

behaviour

Question 3

Downes and Rock

Answer 3

believe that this ambiguity is

a key feature of rule breaking

Question 4

Plummer

Answer 4

societal deviance and situational deviance

suggests that there are two aspects of defining deviance: societal
deviance – acts seen as deviant by the society – and situational
deviance – acts which are only deviant in specific circumstances.