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How Labeling Theory Can Help Us Understand Bias and Criminal Behavior
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set of characteristics of individuals or groups but a process of interaction between deviants and non-deviants and the context in which criminality is interpreted. y applying labels to people and creating categories of deviance, these officials reinforce society's power structure. ociety's dominant
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- set of characteristics of individuals or groups but a process of interaction between deviants and non-deviants and the context in which criminality is interpreted.
- y applying labels to people and creating categories of deviance, these officials reinforce society's power structure.
- ociety's dominant groups create and apply deviant labels to subordinate groups.
- class plays an important role in labeling. Race is also a factor.
- affluent neighborhoods,
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