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(How groups are labelled deviant) Becker sad social groups create deviance by making what?

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Laws which infraction constitutes deviance

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(How groups are labelled deviant) Becker - moral entrepreneurs lead what?

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Moral crusades to change the law

3
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(How groups are labelled deviant) these law changes create a group of outsiders and social control agencies do what?

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Impose label on offenders

4
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(Who gets labelled) what 3 things does a person being labelled depend upon?

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Their interactions with the police
Background
Circumstances of the offence

5
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(Who gets labelled) Cicourel - police typifications of a typical offender contained what?

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A class bias

6
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(Who gets labelled) Cicourel - the class bias is reinforced by prohibition officers believing what?

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Delinquency is caused by poverty and broken homes

Less likely to support non custodial sentences for children from these backgrounds

7
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(Who gets labelled) Cicourel - why is justice negotiable?

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Middle class less likely to be arrested as they don’t fit the typifications

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(Who gets labelled) strength - criticise the stats for underestimating the extent of what?

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Middle class crime

9
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(Who gets labelled) criticism - fails to explain the cause of what?

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Typifications

They may be more likely to be seen as delinquent because they are

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(Labelling) what does lemert talk about?

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Primary and secondary deviance

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(Labelling) Lemert - what is primary deviance?

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Deviant acts not publicly labelled
Widespread and trivial
Don’t affect self concept

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(Labelling) Lemert - what is secondary deviance?

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Deviance from social reaction
Labelling leads to being stigmatised and excluded
Possibly becoming master status

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(Labelling) if an individual allows a label to become part of their self concept what can happen?

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Self fulfilling prophecy occurs
Leading to deviant career
And deviant subculture

14
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(Labelling) what did Young talk about?

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Deviancy amplification

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(Labelling) Young - deviancy amplification occurs as groups are targeted leading to what?

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Widened difference and a deviant subculture

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(Labelling) what example did young use to illustrate deviancy amplification?

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Hippies and drug use

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(Labelling and CJS) Triplett talked about the increased tendency to see young offenders as what?

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Evil

Resulting in less tolerance to minor crime e.g. Truancy

18
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(Labelling and CJS) harsher consequences have what effect on deviance?

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Increase it

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(Labelling and CJS) crime can be reduced by doing what?

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Making and enforcing fewer laws

20
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(Labelling and CJS) braithwaite talked about reintergrative shaming what is this?

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Labelling the crime not the offender so they still see the impact but are not excluded
Avoiding deviancy amplification

21
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Strengths - shows we all commit deviant acts not just who?

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Abnormal individuals portrayed in the media

22
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strengths - show what can change?

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Laws

23
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Strengths - explain why patterns appear in the stats how?

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Socially constructed 
High proportion of working class males due to the law being enforced in discriminatory ways
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Strengths - show attempts to control deviance can do what?

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Worsen it

25
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Weaknesses - the emphasis on labelling portrays the offender as what?

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A victim

Ignoring real victims and removing blame

26
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Weakness - assumes offenders passively do what?

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Accept labels

They may actively choose deviance

27
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Weakness - does not explain what type of deviance?

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Primary

28
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Weakness - doesn’t explain where what come from?

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Typifications

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Weakness - where would Marxists say typifications come from?

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The ruling class having the power to label people as deviants and outsiders

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