CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Erving Goffman, Victimless Crime, Symbolic Interactionism
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Cc 100 - oc2: lecture: week of january 31st 2018: Identify and discuss core concepts that form the foundations of labelling perspectives. Clearly articulate the objective and subjective dimensions to the criminal justice system. Discuss the impact labelling perspectives have had on the criminal justice system. Analyze and debate critiques of labelling perspectives. The emergence of labelling perspectives in criminology can be traced to social, political, and economic changes that were taking place in advanced capitalist societies (particularly the. United states of america) during the 1960s and 1970s. To put it another way, by the 1960s, conventional values and basic assumptions about the. American way of life" were challenged by the rise of the following social movements: Youth culture: the birth of rock and roll. This meant that social life was not immutable, but instead, subject to constant flux depending on what groups had access to the power to define social norms.
