CRIM 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Crack Cocaine, Symbolic Interactionism, Differential Association
13 Aug 2016
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Social process theories are primarily sociological theories that examine the social and psychological processes. People learn techniques of neutralization in order to suspend the conventional moral values before they drift into committing criminal acts. Labelling theory; another process of social process theoryis about the social process of labelling. Labelling involves a societal reaction to crime and deviance. Labelling theorists are interested in social reaction to crime, but are different from durkheimian theorists (crime shocked society"s collective conscience) Durkheim was a functionalist theory, as he assumed that societal consensus was a given (everyone could agree upon the moral values that made up the conscience) Labelling theorists are not functionalists, although they too are interested in the state"s reaction to crime, they do not assume that societal consensus is given or naturally exists. Labelling theorists begin from the premise that any social or moral order is a political achievement.
