Interactionist

Question 1

Secondary deviance meaning

Answer 1

One you’re labelled you will live up to that label and become more criminal, joining others who’re labelled similarly

Question 2

Cohen’s Deviancy amplification spiral
5 steps

Answer 2

Group acts deviant -> Looked down on, report to newspapers, could call police -> The media went against it creating them a folk devil, overexaggerates which creates a moral panic -> The police and other criminal justice agencies increases their policing on it which creates typification –> The group take their actions undergrounds and actually commit more crime –> Repeat

Question 3

Example of amplification spiral

Answer 3

Young’s study of ‘drug takers’
Found that interactions between the hippies and the police increased the crime rather than reducing it.

Question 4

Ao3 of labelling
Downes and Rock

Answer 4

Not everyone turns to crime as a result of being labelled therefore criminals behave deterministic
Some people may fight back the label

Question 5

AO3 ev of labelling (3)

Answer 5

Too deterministic - assume once someone is labelled they will always have a deviant career
Normally focuses on less serious crimes such as drug taking
Fails to explain why people commit primary deviance in the first place before they’re labelled

Question 6

Strength of labelling theory

Answer 6

Shows law is a social construct
Shows selectivism of law