Crime, Disorder, and Justice - The Labelling Theory As A Way of Explaining Social Reactions To Deviant Behaviour

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Law - Criminal process, Criminology, Law Enforcement, grade: 57 Punkte = 2,70, University of Portsmouth (Institute of Criminal Justice Studies), language: English, abstract: In the 1960’s new deviance theories came up in sociology. One of them was the labelling theory, which offered new explanations of crime and deviant behaviour. This paper will cri...