CRIM 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Social Control, Labeling Theory, Routine Activity Theory
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Chapter 6: Different Directions in Theorizing about Youth Crime and Delinquency
Introduction
- Critical perspective on crime: refers to the group of theories that begins with
assumption that structures of power and oppression are the source of crime (i.e. race,
class, gender)
Labelling Theory
- Leet ad Beke eated it ut ae fo Taeau Cie ad the Couity
Play and Delinquency
o Children get involved in delinquent behaviour without knowing whether its bad.
Secondary Deviance
- Lemert argued that there are two types of deviance secondary and primary.
- Primary deviance is the initial act
- Secondary deviance refers to all of the behaviours that a person develops due to
societal responses to her and his deviance.
o Hard for individuals to break away from that deviant personality since everyone
in their community views them as deviant
Societal Response
- Becker said that acts are not deviant until they are defined.
- Deiae does’t oe fo ho deiat the at is ut athe fo the esposes other
have about it
- “oldies kill, apital puishet kills ut they do’t ostitute ude.
- Maste “tatus does’t atte hat that idiidual’s ualities ae they ill e defied
as deviant.
- “hu oied this te as etospetie itepetatios: oe someone is discovered
deviance, we look at all of their past activities and events as deviant.
- Decarceration: moving individuals from institutional settings into community facilities
and programs.
Critical Criminology and Conflict Theory
- Critical C focuses on inequality and oppression as the sources of criminal activity and
issues in the CJS.
- Conflict theory: emphasis on law rather than on lables. Conflict is the natural state of
affairs in society and that order is possible only because one group has the power to
impose its views, interests, values, or culture on another,
Liberal Conflict Theory
- Focused more on law, the application of law and the adminstartion of justice on etiology
of criminal behaviour.
- Criminalization: the process of whereby a person or group comes to be officially and or
publically known as criminal: of the weaker group.
Radical Conflict Theory
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Document Summary
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