Sociology 2267A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Frank Tannenbaum, Community Theatre, Labeling Theory
17 May 2020
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Chapter 6: di erent directions in theorizing about youth crime and delinquency. Critical perspective on crime: refers to the group of theories that begins with the assumption the structures of power and oppression are the source of crime (i. e. race, class, gender, and to some extent structures in society) Important people: edwin lemert and howard becker; frank tannenbaum crime and the. Tannenbaum (1938) argued that children engage in delinquent behaviour without knowing that others view it as delinquent or bad: the young delinquent becomes bad because he does not believe he is good . Lemert and becker: the persons becomes the thing he is described as being . Becker (1963): acts are not deviant until they are so de ned: deviance is not inherent in an act, but rather is created by our responses to the act. Agreed that the process whereby people become delinquent begins with attaching a label to a person in response to his or her behaviour.
