Interactionism Flashcards
what are interactionist views of crime?
Howard Becker
(crime)
Brock Turner
Served a 3 month sentence for raping an unconscious woman (was sentenced to 6 months, max sentence the judge could have given was 14 years)
Lavinia Woodward
Lavinia Woodward, a young medical student at Christ Church, Oxford, was found guilty of wounding her boyfriend, a Ph.D. student at Cambridge, during a quarrel. Intoxicated, she stabbed him with a bread knife.
Woodward pleaded guilty to the attack on her boyfriend, but the judge first deferred sentencing, noting that, while her crime would normally draw an immediate prison sentence, he considered it wrong to blight so promising a career.
Box - Jury duty and ‘fiddling expenses’
Jury duty - jury fiddling expenses while finding someone guilty for a crime of less £ - The difference, then, between being a criminal and being an upright citizen is the fact that a person is labelled as such.
Cicourel
(interactionism)
The middle and upper classes can negotiate their way out of trouble with the police and CJS
* e.g Bullingdon Club, Brock Turner, Lavinia Woodward v’s 2011 London riot sentencing
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reiss - ao3
Some labelling theorists stress that the process of being labelled is open to negotiation, in that some groups or individuals are able to reject the label.
An example of this is Reiss’s study of young homosexual male prostitutes. Although they engaged in homosexual behaviour, they regarded what they did as work, and maintained their image of themselves as being ‘straight’ despite engaging in sex with men.
