CRM 2302 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Labeling Theory, Mass Hysteria, Juvenile Delinquency

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2302
• Professor: patricksavoie

Document Summary

Becker and the moral entrepreneurs: who is howard becker, howard becker is an american sociologist, who"s work focused on deviance. Moral entrepreneurs: deviance - is always the result of enterprise. Before any act can be viewed as deviant, and before any class of people can be labeled and treated as outsiders for committing the act, someone must have made the rule which defines the act as deviant. Even though a practice may be harmful in an objective sense to the group in which it occurs, the harm needs to be discovered and pointed out. People must be made to feel that something ought to be done about it. Someone must call the public"s attention to these matters, supply the push necessary to get things done, and direct such energies as are aroused in the proper direction to get a rule created.