Crime - interactionists

Question 1

Cicourel’s study

Answer 1

Middle class = less likely to be charged, less stereotyping, better negotiation of having a rough time and that punishment can influence future, parents can control them?quick scare = more lenient punishment

Working class = more likely to be stereotypes and charged as they fit the criminal type and have less power to negotiate to higher deviant rates

Question 2

Example of middle class negotiation

Answer 2

Brock turner = sexually assault an unconscious girl, His parents said a “20 minute action” shouldn’t change his life and demonstrated how middle class behaviour was seen lack of judgement rather than criminal activity. Only served 3 months.

Question 3

Chambliss’s study

Answer 3

two groups: saints and roughnecks who committed the same crimes
saints used cultural capital and positive labels to avoid punishments and all graduated
roughnecks were punished and labelled negatively and 2 of these are serious offenders

Question 4

deviancy amplification

Answer 4

Responses from officials can increase rates of crime. Acts are defined as deviant and the group behind them is stigmatised. this leads to stereotyping and more stop and searches and therefore self-fulfilling prophecy by development of their own subculture.

Question 5

Example of deviancy amplification

Answer 5

Police views hippies as “dirty, scruffy and unstable”. This lead to the hippies being pushed further from mainstream society, leading to deviancy amplification spiral. showing it was societies reaction not the drug which helped create the deviant subculture.