criminological theory - context and consequences - Labelling theory

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Becker (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
beckers view - marked by attempts to arouse the public by claims that smoking pot caused youths to lose control and commit senseless crimes undertaken to advance the bureau's organisational interests
Becker concluded, resulted in the creation of a new fragment of the moral constitution of society, its code of right and wrong
Extending labelling theory SHAME AND REINTEGRATION in Crime, Shame and Reintegration - John Braithwaite (1989) - societal reaction increases crime, as labelling theorists contend, or decreases crime, as advocates of punishment predict
Empey, 1982 observed... had a profound impact on social policy
Empey, 1982 - four policies (all beginning with letter D) - decriminalization - diversion - due process - deinstitutionalization
Decriminalization Edwin Schur - criminalization of victimless deviance - such as drug use - creates crime in various ways
1. existence of the laws candidates for arrest and criminal justice (consequences)
2. drives them to commit related offences drug addicts rob to support their habits
3. by prohibiting the legal acquisition of desired goods and services criminalization creates a lucrative illicit market
4. corruption of law enforcement officials through payoffs to 'look the other way'
Diversion has 'widened the net' of state control by creating a 'system with an even greater reach' (Klein, 1979)
Empey, 1982 - for juveniles taking youths from the province of the juvenile court and placing them under the auspices of 'youth service bureaus, welfare agencies, or special schools
Empey, 1982 - for adults release to a privately run mental health agency, community substance abuse program, government-sponsored job training class
less severe intervention diverted from prison and are placed instead in the community under 'intensive probation supervision' or under 'home-in-carceration'
Due process extend to offenders legal protections (e.g. right to an attorney, right not be searched illegally)
Empey, 1982 pointed out both were part of the growing distrust of governmental and other institutions in the 1960s
Deinstitutionalization criminogenic effects of incarceration and to advocate vigorously the policy of lessening prison populations
we have abandoned the idea of deinstitutionalization and chosen to ... instead incarcerate offenders in unprecedented numbers
labelling theory provides an important reminder that the effects of criminal justice intervention are complex and may contradict what common sense would dictate
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