Self-fulfilling Prophecy and the Deviant Career

Question 1

What might being labelled provoke?

Answer 1

A crisis for the individual’s self-concept or sense of identity

Question 2

What is one way to resolve the crisis of SC and SOI?

Answer 2

Accept the deviant label and see themselves as the world sees them

Question 3

What might this lead to?

Answer 3

SFP

Question 4

What does the SFP mean?

Answer 4

An individual accepts their criminal status and commits more crime in society

Question 5

What may further societal Reaction reinforce?

Answer 5

The individual’s outsider status

Question 6

What could further societal reaction lead to?

Answer 6

The individual joining a deviant subculture that offers support, role models and a deviant career

Question 7

Example of further societal reaction?

Answer 7

Ex-convict hard to go straight as noone employs him and seeks other outsiders for support - joins deviant subculture which offers deviant career opportunities + role models - confirms deviant identity

Question 8

What was the case study by Jock Young (1971) on?

Answer 8

Hippy Marijuana Smokers

Question 9

JY - What was drug use initially to hippies’ lifestyle?

Answer 9

Peripheral (PD)

Question 10

What did police perception of hippies as junkies (societal reaction) lead to hippies doing?

Answer 10

Retreat into closed groups - developing a deviant subculture where drug use was the central activity (SFP)

Question 11

AO3

Answer 11

RR - Not criminal accepting label that causes more crime it’s rather that they have been inadequately socialised