Interactionist evaluation

• Summary - An act becomes criminal when it is labelled as so
• Strength - Shows how attempts to control deviance can lead to more
• Strength - Shifts the focus onto how the police create crime based on stereotypes
• Strength - shows that crime is not fixed set of laws
• Weakness - Fails to explain why only some groups are labeled
• Weakness - Does not explain where the power of the label comes from
• Weakness - Fails to explain deviance from people that have not been labelled
• Weakness - Give offenders a victim status and ignore real victims
• Weakness - Wrongfully implies that someone will 100% become their label