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Flashcards by vicky_hunt, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by vicky_hunt
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| Question | Answer |
| Tannenbaum | Dramatization of evil Tagging refusal to dramatise the evil = stops delinquency |
| Theory saw criminals as... | not distinct, unadjusted creatures as social beings, social members of their own group |
| Edwin Lemet PRIMARY DEVIANCE | Acts that are defined as deviant (sociocultural and psychological context) |
| Edwin Lemet Secondary Deviance | when someone uses their deviant identity as their master status (come as a means of deviance) |
| Symbolic Interactionism | crime - subjective |
| Symbolic | focus on the meanings that social situations have for the actors |
| Interactionist | these meanings are shaped by the interactions between the actors |
| HOW it is defined WHO is defining WHEN it is being defined WHERE it is taking place | Sending to prison can further and worsen criminal behaviour |
| Disintegrative shaming | stigmatisation - exclusion |
| Reintegrative shaming | social disapproval - reintegrative - forgiveness |
| Core concepts | symbolic interactionism primary and secondary deviation labelling theory deviancy amplification dramatisation of evil |
| Goffman 'spoiled identities' | way label is applied nature level themselves Perceptions of label - societies perceptions - in media more when doesn't fit a stereotype |
| labelling theory linked with crime | denied the objective reality of crime |
| Producing Stigma | stigma is the problem deviance, sub-cultures way of removing themselves from stigmas question of power and influence |
| acts and areas that make it illegal | the situation deviant due to societal reaction |
| Moral Panic | secure widespread public approval, introduction of sanctions directed against the targeted group |
| Live by Inference | constructed through the use of symbols self-fulfilling prophecy - if we decide something it will happen |
| Becker 'The Outsiders' | groups who label who does the labelling? |
| Limitations and Criticisms | fails to explain the causes of primary deviant behaviour ignores the origins of deviant behaviour underplays the role of state and power doesn't explain why? the public reaction deviant as a victim of society ignores more serious crimes (wasn't enough research) lack of evidence base a perspective rather than a theory (oversold, overused) |
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