CC290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Unthinkable, Frank Tannenbaum, George Herbert Mead
Document Summary
Evolution of labeling theories: 1958 and 1960"s-197"0s- tannenbaum lemert, primary and secondary deviance, braithwaite- crime, shame, and reintegration, l. herman- defiance theory. Lack in empirical research in the 1950"s. Labeling theory is distinct from other theories in that : not about looking at the offender but looking outside the offender. Behaviour, reactions and control measures taken by those who level the offender. Self-fulfilling prophecy: criminal behavioral cycle, defining what the crime is and defining the criminal. Efforts as social control triggers processes the triggers processes that trap individuals in criminal career. Always being re-determine, presumptions of what is right and wrong. Formal laws/ cycles and informal rules change. Ambiguity of acts contradicting a societal understanding of what people can/can"t do. Or: changing the status and definition of rape example in textbook, higher rates of them knowing each other. Issue #2: someone can commit a crime as it is defined by not detected.
