CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jock Young, Semiotics, Labeling Theory
4 Mar 2019
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Symbolic interactionists felt that favourable and unfavourable responses. Events can have different meanings for different people with different people with different experiences in different contexts or social situations. Meaning and the conception of self arise through social interaction (meaning and our self-image are socially constructed). Labeling theory emerged in late 1950s and early 1960s. Growing concerns about racial discrimination, social inequality and civil rights. Emergence of diversion programs aimed at preventing juveniles from being stigmatized and being set on path of crime. Concern about the label juvenile delinquent/ criminal becoming a "self- fulfilling prophecy". The dramatization of evil ; a "tag" being applied to identify child as delinquent. As a consequence, child might change own self-image, or others might come to regard child as a delinquent. An arrest means the delinquent is singled out for special treatment, precipitating series of events including exposure to criminal justice institutions. Offender might not see himself/herself as deviant.
