CJ ST 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Juvenile Delinquency, Frank Tannenbaum, Friedrich Engels
11 Oct 2016
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Frank tannenbaum: wrote about the dualistic fallacy, which is the idea that delinquents and non-delinquents are two fundamentally different types of people. They are not: labeling an individual delinquent makes it more likely that he or she will live up to the label. Primary deviation: deviance that everyone engages in occasionally; it is rationalized, or otherwise dealt with as part of a socially acceptable role. Secondary deviation: occurs when a person begins to employ his or her deviant behavior as part of their family. An act is only deviant depending on how people react to it. Edwin schur: radical nonintervention, most delinquency is insignificant and benign, therefore punishment is unnecessary, as are. A status that takes precedent over all other statuses or characteristics of the individual. Individual may feel pressure to live up to the label, thus turning to delinquency most delinquency laws.
