1.2 Responding and Enforcing Rules
1.2 Labelling theory
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- Created on: 03-01-22 13:45
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- Responding and Enforcing Rules
- many theories take for granted that once a person has committed a deviant/ criminal act, the responses will be uniform
- people respond differently to rule breaking or deviance
- British Crime Survey stats show that young black males are more likely than any other group to be stopped for questioning and searching
- this can be seen as a result of officers belief that this particular social group is more likely to offend than any other
- for this reason, they are subjects of routine suspicion
- this can be seen as a result of officers belief that this particular social group is more likely to offend than any other
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- criticised for failing to explain the causes of primary deviance as many people commit crimes knowing their actions are against the law before they've been labelled
- fails to distinguish between crimes with different degrees of seriousness and criminals who do different amounts of harm
- the theory tends to assume that labelling is either arbitrary or based upon biases of people who do the labelling
- strong evidence suggests that some groups are more likely to be labelled than others
- suggests that a full understanding of crime and deviance requires both offending and social reaction through labelling
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