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Assess the view that powerful institutions such as the mass media, the police and judiciary label social groups as deviants and/or criminals.
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Assess the view that powerful institutions such as the mass media, the police and judiciary label social groups as deviants and/or criminals. Labelling is present in many areas of sociology, and crime and deviance is no exception. It involves a 'label' or categorisation being applied to someone or to the social group of which they belong, either rightfully or wrongfully, which can have detrimental or positive effects. Various institutions label social groups, some believe it is done predominantly by the police, mass media and judiciary system. By exploring aspects like moral panics, arrests, and laws passed by the judiciary, we will establish to what extent these institutions do label these social groups as deviants and/or criminals. Labelling theory is a theoretical approach derived from symbolic interactionism, which looks at the consequences of having a particular social typing or label placed on an act, group or person. What the labelling theory alerts us...
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