Cicourel - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

An A* example answer to the question Applying material from Item B and your knowledge, evaluate the usefulness of labelling theory in understanding crime and deviance (30 marks June 2018 Original)

A summarised explanation of the interactionalist’s perspective of crime and deviancy. In this document I cover relationship between crime in the media and the effects of media representation, an explanation and evaluation of Becker’s labelling theory and other key sociologist such as Cicourel, Felson, Ditton and Duffy. an explanation of folk devils, moral panics, key statistics and how laws are made in reference to moral entrepreneurs.