LAWS1110 Lecture 7: Lecture 7A - Social Explanations for Crime
Document Summary
Social world is actively created by individuals in their everyday interactions. Individuals do not respond passively to external stimuli. But bring their own perspective and meaning to situations. Our perception of ourselves derived through a series of social interactions. How we relate to each other based on these typifications. Is a process where others attempt to impose an identity upon us. If individuals or groups are defined as deviant this definition (will) affect their behaviour. Deviant acts are those which are labelled as such. Labelling may increase the level of deviance committed by those labelled as deviant. And the subsequent construction of their own identities. What we do is not in itself deviant. It is the social interaction with others that is important in determining whether someone does become deviant. By applying those rules to certain people leads to labelling. Those who have broken a rule is seen as someone who cannot be trusted.
