Deviance Amplification

Question 1

Cohen’s _______ _____ theory

Answer 1

Moral panic theory

Question 2

Young

Answer 2

Study of hippies

Question 3

Hall

Answer 3

Study of Black ‘muggers’

Question 4

Society or the institutions that police it may hyper focus on superficial, small, physical or misunderstood characteristics
What are examples?

Answer 4

Black teenagers
Hippies smoking weed

Question 5

Deviance amplification occurs when the accused party begins to make the activity or aspect of their identity being persecuted, more central to them, usually after being _________ or abused.
This is a self

Answer 5

Arrrsted
Self fulfilling prophesy

Question 6

Labelling can often occur to scapegoat communities.
This is the perspective of the…..
Approach.
It relates to ethnicity and crime for example.

Answer 6

Marxist approach

Question 7

What are deficits of interactionist theory
Eg: Moral panic theory, labelling theory.

Answer 7

It provides no apparent solution, it only implies that things will either have to heal over long term biases being corrected, or that nothing can be done because of a need to scapegoat.

• it doesn’t actually tell us the origin of crime, only how things spiral intl crime or how existing crimes come to define people through persecution.

Question 8

What are the positives of the interactionist theory?

Answer 8

It takes into account all facets, race, gender, class, sexuality, political beliefs, lifestyle…

It also is considers wider social interactions, things people are aware of day to day.