CRIM1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Labeling Theory, Juvenile Delinquency, Sex And The Law
27 Jul 2018
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Basic premise: crime and criminal behaviour are social processes. Focus: nature of interaction between offender, victim, cjs officials. Definition of crime depends on who does the labelling: power to the label. Revolution in thinking: music, clothes, language, activities outside cultural norm. Interactionism: objective vs subjective experience of crime and cj: social processes, opinion on what/who is: good/bad, right/wrong, legal/illegal, contradicts positivist theory: objective, crime exists, consensus around core values and behaviour. 1950"s represented energy, separateness, novelty, rebellion, changing identities: language, fashion, rock and roll: leisure based youth culture. The beatles: english rock band, liverpool 1960, foremost influential act of the rock era, came to be perceived as an embodiment of the ideas by the counter-subculture 1960s. Social change of women: second wave of feminism. Homosexuals, children, ethnic groups, human rights, conflict, mirrored in australia. 1955-1975: resistance war against america or the america war. Resistance to vietnam: young, us and australia, conscription.
