The Social Construction Of Crime

Question 1

Becker - what is a deviant?

Answer 1

A deviant is simply someone who the label has been successfully applied to, and the deviant behaviour is simply behaviour that people so label

Question 2

Who gets labelled

Answer 2

Depends on factors

• their interactions with agencies of social control
• their appearance and background

Question 3

Piliavin& briar - labelling

Answer 3

Found Police decisions to arrest a youth were mainly based on physical cues such as they way they dress

Question 4

Effects of labelling. Primary deviance -Lamart

Answer 4

Lamart- distinguishes between primary & secondary deviance

-primary are acts that have not been publicly labelled - mostly goes uncaught

Question 5

Secondary deviance- lamart

Answer 5

-secondary- result of social reaction that is of labelling - criminals can then be publicly shamed - don’t have a place in society- leads to self fulfilling prophecy, act up to their deviant label

Question 6

Labelling & criminal justice policy- Triplett

Answer 6

Notes and increasing tendency to see young offenders as Evil And and to be less tolerant of minor deviances.- criminal justice system has made harsher sentences- as predicted by lamart secondary deviance- lead to an increase of offending

Question 7

Reintegrative shaming - braithwaite

Answer 7

Most sociologists see labelling as negative however braithwait - positive

• braithwait two Types of labelling
• disintegrative shaming
• reintegrative shaming

Question 8

Yep types of shaming - braithwaite

Answer 8

• Disintegrative shaming- crime and criminal is kneeled as bad- offender excluded from society
• reintegrative shaming- labels the act but not the actor ie he has done a bad thing but isn’t a bad person - avoids stigmatising the offender as evil - at the same time making them aware of the negatives