This chapter extracts a current account of the research on the labeling theory of crime. Labeling theory argues that although deviant behavior may initially stem from various causes and conditions, once individuals are labeled as deviants, especially if they are labeled by criminal justice agents (...
The labeling theory is the bridge between consensus theories of criminality and more critical approaches of explaining crime. The labeling perspective, as it is more accurately called, focuses on the impact of the societal reaction to criminal behavior and offenders. In this approach, offenders are ...
restorative justiceshamingsociology of crimesociology of devianceScholars across disciplines continue to try to explain the origins of criminality. Labeling theory surmises that individuals internalize negative labels cast by others, thus perpetuating negative, deviant, and/or criminal behavior. This ...
Labeling Theory History Traces Back to Frank Tannenbaums 1938 Crime and the Community Criminal behavior is a product of the “The conflict between a group and the community at large”. Labeling Theory Those engaging in criminal behavior are not necessarily criminal “Why do people become criminal...
Responsibility Links, Fair Labeling and Proportionality in China: Comparing China’s Criminal Law Theory and DoctrineChineseCriminal LawFoodStandardsThis paper evaluates fair labeling in the areas of criminalization and punishment in China. We consider the justice of criminal labeling from a comparative ...
Labeling Theory Reference work entry First Online:27 November 2018 pp 2807–2814 Cite this reference work entry Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice Erich Goode 2361Accesses 1Citations Overview Deviance is a label attached to certain acts and individuals; those acts need not be harmful ...
Criminal Justice Involvement and Subsequent Delinquency of Immigrant Youth: A Test of Labeling TheoryJiang, Xin
The labeling process of "making the criminal" began to be fully explored in the 1950s and 1960s, with work by Edwin Lemert, Howard Becker, Edwin Schur, and others. While social scientists tended to distance themselves from labeling theory in the early 1970s, the labeling concept was not ...
(2012). From prison to integration: Applying modified labelling theory to sex offenders. Criminal Justice Studies: A Journal of Crime, Law and Society, 25 (1), 97 - 109.Mingus, W. & Burchfield, K. B. (2012). From prison to integration: Applying modified labeling theory to sex offenders...
Relatedly, conflict theory argues that racial minorities and the impoverished have restricted access to law-making and criminal justice policy, and hence their interests are often not represented in the laws, policies, and organizations that determine the criminalization (labeling) process (Reiman,1995...