Some examples from this set of practice questions
1.
What is a master status?
Answer: A master status occurs once an individual has been labelled/ stigmatised and therefore it becomes their self-fulfilling prophecy and they act up to their label, leading to a deviant career.
2.
What is Becker\'s theory of crime?
Answer: Becker (1963) argues crime is a social construction, thus a deviant is simply someone who has been labelled.
3.
Who proposed the negotiation of justice theory, whereby police officers have certain stereotypes and typifications which make them likelier to perceive certain groups of people as criminals?
Answer: Cicourel
4.
State a limitation of the labelling theory
Answer: It is too deterministic as it assumes that once someone is labelled, their deviant career is inevitable when arguably it is not- this ignores why some people truly pursue deviance, or the initial crime that occurs prior to the labelling.
5.
What is the dark figure of crime?
Answer: This is the difference between real crime rates versus statistics- we do not know for certain how much crime goes unreported.
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