Why does labeling seem different from other crime theories?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: [key points to be made]
*Most theories accept legal definitions and assume law as consensus of society. Labeling believes law is relative and legal definitions of crime are not only subjective, but relative to time and place.
*Focus is not on the lawbreaker but on the societal reaction to the deviant act
*Refers to deviant act more than crimes
*Asks, "Why did society react to this individual this time?"
*May not be really a theory, but a perspective because it is mostly built off of symbolic interactionism
*Also looks at people who commit deviance but are not caught
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