Discuss the process of labeling theory as it relates to delinquency. Be sure to include the sequence stages of interaction as defined by Lemert
What will be an ideal response?
The answer should include the following points:
- The process of making the criminal is a process of tagging, defining, identifying, segregating, describing, emphasizing, and making conscious and self-conscious.
- According to Lemert, the sequence of interaction leading to secondary deviation is roughly as follows:
(1) primary deviation
(2) social penalties
(3) further primary deviation
(4) stronger penalties and rejection
(5) further deviation, perhaps with hostilities and resentment beginning to focus upon those doing the penalizing
(6) crisis reached in the tolerance quotient, expressed in formal action by the community stigmatizing of the deviant
(7) strengthening of the deviant conduct as a reaction to the stigmatizing and penalties
(8) ultimate acceptance of deviant social status and efforts at adjustment on the basis of the associated role
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