Interactionism and Labelling theory

Question 1

Social construction of crime

BECKER (1963)

Answer 1

A deviant person is someone whos label has been succesfully applied

Question 2

Police steryotypes

CICOUREL: the negation of justice

Answer 2

Officers typifications (stereotypes) of the typical criminal lead to them concentrate on types of people that are more likely to offend.

Question 3

Who discovered two types of deviance?

Answer 3

LEMERT

Question 4

Primary Deviance

Answer 4

Deviant acts that have not been publicly labelled as criminal.
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Question 5

Secondary Deviance

Answer 5

Deviant acts and individuals that are labelled.

Question 6

Reintegrative shaming

Answer 6

BRAITHWAITE (1989)

Question 7

​Reintegrative shaming

Answer 7

Punishes them in a way that strengthens their bonds with society.

Question 8

Disintegrative shaming

Answer 8

Punishment which isolates the individual and causes secondary deviance.

Question 9

what does Douglas say about (suicide)

Answer 9

Rejects the use of official statistics when examining suicide.

Question 10

PLATT view in moral entrepreneurs

Answer 10

Juvénile délinquants, campaign by upper class Victorian moral entrepreneurs, wanting to protect younger people