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Labeling Theory
Title: Labeling Theory
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 870 | Pages: 3.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Labeling Theory
CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORIES
-labeling theory, ch. 8
Thinking about the labeling theory in terms of criminology, as a dependent or
independent variable, one is met with many implications of the complex theory. It is
difficult to trace stigmatizing labels because to do so one must think of a society that is
oppositional by nature as opposed to a core group of its inhabitants. And it is also
difficult to determine at times, even through the ostensibly objective …showed first 75 words of 870 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 870 total…compliance to an other’s conception of one’s
own identity is a prerequisite for patterned behavior. It is interesting to think about the
relationship between labeling theory and racial profiling, in which law enforcement
officers may be helping people “become what the sanctioning process meant to prevent,
even if he or she did not set out that way” (Akers, 1994, p.128). Again, I lack the data to
support any sort of hypothesis on this issue.
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