CRMN 2850U Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Frank Tannenbaum, Labeling Theory, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: UOIT
• Department: Criminology-and-Justice
• Course: CRMN 2850U
• Professor: Jordan Harel

Document Summary

Week 11 lecture 8 labelling and critical theories. Labelling theory: also known as the social (societal) reaction theory, most criminological theories start with the offender as the (cid:862)starti(cid:374)g poi(cid:374)t(cid:863, labelling perspective diverged from this idea, they argue that we should not focus on offender. Self-fulfilling prophecy: labelling theory finds its roots = symbolic interactionism. George mead: sense of self - constructed and reconstructed social interaction. Labelling theory- tannenbaum: frank tannenbaum (crime and the community), popular in the (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1010)(cid:1004)"s, groundwork was laid in the (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1007)(cid:1004)"s, argues that crime educational process vs. individual differences. Youth criminal influence all around: important step in criminal education is the arrest. During the arrest delinquent status is (cid:862)held up(cid:863) (cid:862)the (cid:271)est poli(cid:272)(cid:455) of deali(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith ju(cid:448)e(cid:374)iles is (cid:862)a refusal to dra(cid:373)atize the e(cid:448)il. The less said a(cid:271)out it the (cid:271)etter. (cid:863) (cid:894)p. (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:895)(cid:863) (cid:894)culle(cid:374), ag(cid:374)e(cid:449) a(cid:374)d. Wilcox, 254: anticipated other theorizing particularly that a reaction often makes things worse.