What is Labelling theory in Criminology?
What are the strength and weaknesses of Labelling theory
Evaluation and critical analysis of labelling Theory.
Labelling theory of Crime.
The nature of social reaction and intervention by social control agencies in relation to deviance and crime.
Cons...
OVERVIEW
➤The interactional nature of crim
➤The labelling process: ‘the labe
the importance of ‘the label’ i
deviance
➤‘Labelling’ is not random
,CONCLUDING REMARKS
➤From “criminology” to “sociology
➤Relevance as a theory today? – ba
➤Contemporary examples
➤What about the victims of crime?
the labelling process?
,CONTEXT =
DURKHEIM
Social functionalist perspective
➤ Crime outrages society
➤ Society labels acts that outrage them (inc
➤ Labelling of deviants satisfies the outrage
need to control deviant behaviour
,CONTEXT = 1960’S
CRIMINOLOGY
➤ Questioning of the status quo, turning aw
explained crime in terms of characteristi
structure orthe characteristics of neighbo
➤ Focus on who makes the criminal law in t
and why?
➤ The definitional power of the criminal law
➤ Is law breaking the most important criter
,ROOTS = ‘SYMBOLIC
INTERACTIONISM
➤ Emerged in Chicago - ’ of George Herbe
work
➤ The ‘self’ = a process – an interplay between tw
➤ ‘I’ and the ‘Me’
➤ Understand how meanings are assigned to tho
product of people’s interactions
➤ A person’s self-image = constructed by interacti
awareness of how others see them
, THEORY =
LABELLING
➤ Look at the processes through which certain
categorise the behaviour of others
➤ Argue that people given a certain label are st
are responded to by others accordingly
➤ Such social stereotyping is seen to reinforce
the behaviour it is designed to prevent
➤ Labelling theories focus on the ways in which
deviant, and the implications of such definiti
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