AQA A2 Sociology Unit 4 - Crime and Deviance - Interactionism

Becker - Deviant = Label applied succesfully

Chambliss - Saints and Roughnecks

• Roughnecks were classed as deviant, saints were not even though they took part in the same crimes
• Roughnecks - 2 teachers, 2 serious offenders, 2 trouble with police 
• Saints - All graduated, Middle class, went to college

Lemert - Primary and Secondary Deviance

• Primary - Doing deviant acts, but not seeing them as deviant 
• Secondary - Named and Shamed =  master status and deviant career (Voids other labels) 

Young - Police labelling 

•  labelled, rejected by mainstream society = developed into subcultures (Social Control) 

Downes & Rocks - Not everyone absorbs the label

Riess - Male Prositiutes reject the homosexual label - saying "Its part of the job"

Deviancy Amplification 

• Deviance occurs
• Reaction by police and media
• More deviance, or percieved deviance 
• Moral Panic
• Social controlsincrease
• Again more deviance 

Stan Cohen - Folk Devils and Moral Panic 

• Societal rection to Mods and Rockers demonized them
• Social controls reacted - harsher penalties
• Seen as Folk Devils 
• Reaction to deviance = Moral panic

Evaluations

• Too Deterministic
• Too Sympathetic to offenders
• Ignores who has the power to label (Marxist)