AJ 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Capital, Labeling Theory

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Administration of Justice
• Course: AJ 2
• Professor: mauney

Document Summary

The view that people become criminals when they are labeled as such and the label is applied to their identity. Behaviors that are considered criminal are highly subjective. Crime is defined by those in power. Positive and negative labels involve subjective interpretation of behavior. Primary deviance: a violation with little o no long term effects. Secondary deviance: violation that leads to the offender being successfully labeled deviant. Effects of labeling: validity, consequences of social process theory. A group of theories that attempts to explain the natural history of a criminal career; its onset, the course it follows, and its terminations. Population heterogeneity vs. state dependence (agency vs. structure) The propensity to commit crime is stable. The propensity to commit crime is constantly changing. The view that criminality is a dynamic process, influences by many characteristics, traits, and experiences, and that behavior changes accordingly over the life course. Conformity to social rules and function effectively in society.