1. The Labeling Perspective
Three Interrelated Concerns: 1)Social-Historical Development of Labels 2)Application of labels 3)Practical Consequences of Labeling Process

2. The Labeling Perspective
Mead’s Psychology of Punitive Justice
Tannenbaum’s Crime and Community
Lemert’s Social Pathology
Becker’s The Outsiders and The Other Side
Why was this Perspective so popular in the 1960s?

3. The Labeling Perspective
Labeling Perspective has Different Focus from Other Theories of Deviance
Becker’s Issues with the Process moral entrepeneurs
Becker’s Sequential Model of Deviance
Deviance as a Master Status

4. The Labeling Perspective
Primary and Secondary Deviance Labeling Amplifies Deviance
Retrospective Interpretation
Goffman’s Stigma
So Why Do We Label?

5. The Labeling Perspective
Can You Recover from a Label?
What About Rejecting a Label?
Notion of Power: Links to Conflict Theory