Outline labelling theory and consider its usefulness in understanding youngsters offense and anti-social behavior in Britain today.
Labelling theory says that deviance and conformity results not so much from what folks do but from how others react to those actions, it highlights communal responses to crime and deviance Macionis and Plummer, (2005). Deviant behaviour is therefore socially designed. This essay will describe completely the labelling theory and comment on the importance of the theory to the deviant behavior of the young ones and the anti-social behaviour of the children in Britain today.
The labelling theory becomes dominant in the early 1960s and the later 1970s when it was used as a sociological theory of criminal offenses influential in challenging orthodox positivity criminology. The key visitors to this theory were Becker and Lement.
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