interactionism explanation

• Solutions to crime


  Behaviour discrimination

  Law should avoid

  Braithwaite- 2 shaming types

  Disintegrated, which is act an actor labelled such as a rape and rapist

  Reintegrated, which is the act is only labelled as bad
• Studies


  Brown – rave culture

  Wilkins – deviancy amplification spiral

  Cohen – mods and rockers

  Fawbert- hoodies
• interactionism


  Focuses on actions meanings and effect of labels which lead to increase crime and interaction between the DVN and those who define it so it’s subjective meanings negotiated
• Cicourel 


  negotiation of justice were police label black males as criminal
• Becker


  labelling series, self, fulfilling prophecy, master status, where police stereotype the typical criminal of a young working class blackmail and use it to interpret behaviour of deviant, and then people respond to them in terms of the label and they are treated depending on the label
• public labelling


  Lemert - primary and secondary deviance

  Primary is aqsa are not publicly labelled so don’t have an effect on the self-concept

  Secondary is asked of visible and severe society reaction, which affects the individuals self-concept which creates status
• public labelling


  #MeToo- Harvey whinestine

  Philip Scofield – grooming

  Malinowski- incest between cousins, where young men and cousins were publicly, shamed, and led to suicide, and this links to becker labelling theory
• Young


  Hippies who smoked marijuana police stereotyped and labelled them as a dirty druggie, so this affected them, and they felt different, so united by retreating and formed, deviant subculture
• Lemert

  stuttering when North American Indians had ceremonial life, and if kids didn’t meet the standards, the parents were shamed due to pro produced by societies reaction
• Chambliss


  Saints & Roughnecks

  Saints avoided the label of deviant due to coming from middle-class, white statuses and draw far away to hide their deviant crimes

  Roughnecks labelled by police and teaches due to their working class status, who were trouble which led to increase crimes, such as stealing and lead to delinquent careers
• Abbas – Islamophobia


  Language in the media used, such as terrorist radical is all violent towards Muslims so makes young Muslims vulnerable to radicalisation

  Media creates a drip feeling where Muslims are made to be a terror, which leads to self fulfilling prophecy and alienate the young Muslim men who turn to extremism and increased crime
• Youth subcultures

  Becker- labelling, youth labelled as delinquent, which increases crime

  Young – hippies

  Chambliss- S & R

  Cicourel- police stereotype, working class, kids
• Cicourel


  social organisation of juvenile Justice which led to 3 observations of the police and the criminal justice system:

  Stop and search based on police views

  Arrest, depending on appearance and manner

  Probation officers, picture of typical offender

  Ultimately behaviour has an effect on their social class