Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Labeling
Conflict
Marx/Radical
People fulfill their label that society gives them.
ex. Urban Youth are branded by the median and other instistutions as dangerous.
Other evaluations of us = self image = our behavior
Primary Deviance: When the person who is labeled does not act negatively to the perveived misbehavior.
Secondary Deviance: When the person who is labeled does act negatively (attacks, defense, threathens) dut to being labeled as deviant.
Societies are composed of groups with conflicting values and interests. Thus, creating an inverse relation between power and official crime rates.
Ex: the rich against the poor, the whites against minorities.
Capitalist in the economic system alienate those who commit crime. Thus, those with power get to decide what is a crime and what is not a crime to protect their individual economic interests.
Ex: Exploting Workers.
In late 1980, cls scholars deemphasized the indeterminacy thesis in their work and instead focused on how identity issues, such as race, gender, and sexuality, help to construct legal values and practices.
Radical criminologists of CLS argue those in power used legal order to impose their own interests by force on society, in an attempt to protect their property and physical safety from those without power.
In the cls, It maintains a level of criticism that is linked with political action and radical change.
Labeling Evidence: Urban youth are already inscribed by stigmatizing images of gangs...which are percieved as "primitives" (Katz, 1997).
Conflict evidence: Conflict theory presumes that power is the basis of private property rather than vice versa" (Conflict theory, pg 121).
Marx/Radical Evidence: "economy has maintained such a grip on AMerican life as to shortchange families, schools, local communities, and political" (Messner, 1994).
Marx/Radical
Strengths: stress is primarily on the nature of capitalism and how economic factors force people to act in certain ways.
Weaknesses: mostly governed by external forces, working class crime is directed at the working class, all laws are at the interest of the ruling class.
Labeling
Strengths: route cause of crime (label), explains recidivism, doesn't generalize.
Weaknesses: doesn't explain crime of passion/reason, over predicts-everyone with a label will commit crime.
Conflict
Strengths: recognizes inequalities, puts blames on society, explains white collar and street crimes differences, no assumptions about human nature, explains juveniles.
Weaknesses: doesn't explain crime individually, people of power crimes are beingunnoticed.
Labeling Theory: labels are generated by social inequality; basis of labeling is on social status than criminal hisitory. Why are certain people were defined as criminal or deviant? Who makes the rules?
Conflict Theory: ignores differences among offenders; less specific identifying causes of crime; presumes power is the basis of property. Who benefits, and at whose expense?
Marxist/Radical Theory: accounts for crime only in the lower and working class; does not account for the influence of social institutions.
The theorises; class circumstance, power, social/society, deviance (targeted in specific groups) are connected to cls because the labeling theory focuses on psychological data and critical data. the conflict and Marx's theory relate to status/power which is more specific to critical data