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criminological theory - context and consequences - Labelling theory
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- 1Becker (1963) - how the commissioner of the treasury department's federal bureau of Narcotics served as a 'moral entrepreneur'lead campaign to outlaw marijuana through Marijuana Tax Act of 1937
- 2beckers view - marked by attempts to arouse the public by claims that smoking pot caused youths to lose control and commit senseless crimesundertaken to advance the bureau's organisational interests
- 3Becker concluded, resulted inthe creation of a new fragment of the moral constitution of society, its code of right and wrong
- 4Extending labelling theory SHAME AND REINTEGRATIONin Crime, Shame and Reintegration - John Braithwaite (1989) - societal reaction increases crime, as labelling theorists contend, or decreases crime, as advocates of punishment predict
- 5Empey, 1982 observed...had a profound impact on social policy
- 6Empey, 1982 - four policies (all beginning with letter D)- decriminalization
- diversion
- due process
- deinstitutionalization - 7DecriminalizationEdwin Schur - criminalization of victimless deviance - such as drug use - creates crime in various ways
- 81. existence of the lawscandidates for arrest and criminal justice (consequences)
- 92. drives them to commit related offencesdrug addicts rob to support their habits
- 103. by prohibiting the legal acquisition of desired goods and servicescriminalization creates a lucrative illicit market
- 114. corruption of law enforcement officialsthrough payoffs to 'look the other way'
- 12Diversionhas 'widened the net' of state control by creating a 'system with an even greater reach' (Klein, 1979)
- 13Empey, 1982 - for juvenilestaking youths from the province of the juvenile court and placing them under the auspices of 'youth service bureaus, welfare agencies, or special schools
- 14Empey, 1982 - for adultsrelease to a privately run mental health agency, community substance abuse program, government-sponsored job training class
- 15less severe interventiondiverted from prison and are placed instead in the community under 'intensive probation supervision' or under 'home-in-carceration'
- 16Due processextend to offenders legal protections (e.g. right to an attorney, right not be searched illegally)
- 17Empey, 1982 pointed outboth were part of the growing distrust of governmental and other institutions in the 1960s
- 18Deinstitutionalizationcriminogenic effects of incarceration and to advocate vigorously the policy of lessening prison populations
- 19we have abandoned the idea of deinstitutionalization and chosen to ...instead incarcerate offenders in unprecedented numbers
- 20labelling theory provides an important reminder that the effects of criminal justice interventionare complex and may contradict what common sense would dictate
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