Interactionism Flashcards
Interactionist Theory?
Process of becoming criminal
Barlett’s Theory?
mot people commit deviant acts
Pople break the law 17 times on average
Taylor, Walton and Young Theory?
Labelling theory - Look at the process of application
Becker’s Theory?
Outsider’s Theory -
1) Groups in society make the rules
2) Rules are broken
3) labelled as outsiders
4) Label successfully applied = seen as deviant
Malinowski’s Study?
Incest - community leave it unnoticed until publically shamed = deviant.
Responding to Rule enforcement
Once a crime has happened the response is usually uniform but some people don’t always react the same
Kitsuse Study?
Asked 75 Heterosexual males how they’d react to homosexual advances
= Some tolerant and some not
Lemert’s Theory?
Canadian Inuits - speech impediments
parents placed pressure on children to speak fluently which made the impediment worse
Lemert’s Primary Deviance?
Initial crime which is trivial on it’s own
example: The speech impediment
Lemert’s Secondary Deviance?
A consequence of the response of others
Example: The parents pressuring the children = making it worse
Weaknesses of Labelling Theory?
States that people don’t know they’re doing wrong until they labelled deviant
Can’t explain reason for first offence
Don’t acknowledge severity of some criminal acts
Deterministic
Stanley Cohen’s Theory
Deviancy Amplification - Mod’s and Rocker’s
Attempt to control crime makes it worse
Media creates moral panic and folk devils
= clamp down by police = more arrests
Weaknesses of Stanley Cohen’s Theory?
No explanation of why people commit crimes
Blames media + removes blame from the people
