unit 5: labelling approach

Question 1

• explores both objective and subjective dimensions of criminal experience
• the definition of crime focuses on who is labelling that crime. so crime is crime when a judge says that’s crime
• focuses on the criminals and their interaction with the criminal legal system
• people shouldn’t be labeled

Answer 1

labelling theory

Question 2

examination of stigmatization

Answer 2

• crime results on the labelling
• people who are negatively label will act accordingly
• if you say i act like a criminal ill act like one

Question 3

typifications

Answer 3

• when we are always constructing reality

- see something we make up in our heads

Question 4

imapct of labelling

Answer 4

• the way people perceive you (perception)

- self-fulfilling prophecy, (Rosenthal and Jacobso) you can’t get passed that bad label you have

Question 5

youth drift, Matza 1964

Answer 5

• go from good behavior to bad behavior depending what they are surrounded by the people
• conventional behavior to unconventional behavior but dont stay their forever they start driftting back
• that’s why its important not to label youth, “hands off” attitude but more so take them away from those bad behavior by putting them in programs

Question 6

Becker

Answer 6

• focused on people relegated to the margins of society

- people are placed on the “outside” because their behaviors were labelled by powerful; interest groups

Question 7

primary deviance, Lemmert

Answer 7

• deviant label is a passing event that does not change person’s self-concept

Question 8

secondary deviance, Lemert

Answer 8

• formal labelling leads to fundamental reorienting of self-concept

Question 9

Phenomenological criminology

Answer 9

• integrates criminology and cultural studies by focusing on the meaning of crime and why people engage in it
• seen as subcultural expression
• Thrill-seeking

Question 10

Sanders and Hannem

Answer 10

• examined the role of technology in Canadian policing
• they would stop individuals, card them on usual suspects
• this can over policing in certain areas and labelling of already marginalized groups

Question 11

critique

Answer 11

• weak explanations of initial acts of deviance
• focus on crime defined as social reaction fails to account cross-cultural crime (rape, murder)
• doesn’t account for variability in how people respond to labelling
• limits its analysis to how power is wielded at the institutional level (police)