Explain what is meant by the "dramatization of evil" and how it relates to labeling

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: [key points to be made]
*Frank Tannenbaum wrote in Crime and the Community (1938) about tags
*Process of tagging or labeling is dramatizing the evil
*People react to "tag" to the fact that you are part of an "unadjusted" group rather than just not fitting into mainstream society
*Make individual uncomfortable and self-conscious with rejection

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