Labelling theory claims that deviance and conformity results not so much from what people do but from how others respond to those actions, it highlights social responses to crime and deviance Macionis and Plummer, (2005).Deviant behaviour is therefore socially constructed. This essay will describe i...
according to this theory, what is important in the study of deviance is the social audience, not the individual person. Becker also maintained that what is important in crime is not the act of an individual but the reaction
Labelling Theory Labelingtheoryhad its origins in Suicide‚ a book by French sociologist Émile Durkheim. He found that crime is not so much a violation of a penal code as it is an act that outrages society. He was the first to suggest that deviant labeling satisfies that function and sa...
Although this paper does not engage directly with labelling theory, given its focus on the limits of labelling, it is also worth noting Plummer's (1979) argument that such perspectives may also contribute to prac- tical projects such as "decriminalisation, deinstitutionalisa- tion, demedic...
Labelling theory was also influential in shifting the epistemological and ontological frameworks utilised in criminology. In Howard Becker's (possessive) classic (1963) book, Outsiders: Studies in the sociology of deviance, he makes the case that deviance and by extension, crime, is not a quality...
Labeling theory had its origins in Suicide‚ a book by French sociologist Émile Durkheim. He found that crime is not so much a violation of a penal code as it is an act that outrages society. He was the first to suggest that deviant labeling satisfies that function and satisfies society...