Labeling Theory: Empirical Tests

by Joseph Murray (Editor), Joseph Murray (Editor)

Labeling theory has been an extremely important and influential development in criminology, but its recent advances have been largely neglected. This volume aims to reinvigorate labeling theory by presenting a comprehensive range of its modern applications. In the first section, Ross Matsueda chronicles the early history of the theory. Fred Markowitz then reviews labeling theory research as applied to mental illness. Francis T. Cullen and Cheryl Lero Jonson discuss the relationship between labeling theory and correctional rehabilitation. The second section, which is focused on previous tests of labeling theory, begins with a review of prior empirical tests by Kelle Barrick. Anthony Petrosino and his colleagues then summarize their meta-analysis of the impact of the juvenile system processing on delinquency. Lawrence Sherman then discusses experiments on criminal sanctions. The final segment on empirical tests of labeling theory begins with a chapter by Marvin Krohn and his colleagues on the effects of official intervention on later offending. The long-term effects of incarceration are then investigated by Joseph Murray and his colleagues. Finally, Steven Raphael reviews the effects of conviction and incarceration on future employment. This landmark book presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge about labeling theory, and illustrates the importance of this theory for policy and practice. It is the latest volume in Transaction's acclaimed Advances in Criminological Theory series.

278 pages, Hardcover

First published May 15, 2011

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Reviews

[A.P. Dannenfeldt · Rating 4 out of 5]

08/07/2022
Is deviant behavior largely the product of our attempts to live up (or down) to the expectations of authority figures & significant others who guide us into stereotype- or background-concordant canals?

Do we perform as masks-all-the-way-down ‘looking glass selves’ acting via reflex according to a self-concept constituted chiefly by what we think others see in us?

Such lines of thinking may by now seem sophomoric posturing or mere intellectual signaling, but such theorizing once held sway among cutting-edge culturati & social scientists whose understanding shaped the institutions with which we now live. Because ideas can have power irrespective of their accuracy, they are well worth testing once finding any measure of purchase.

This second book in my inquiry into social reaction theory, like the first one I read (The Labelling of Deviance, Gove, 1975) marshals such evidence as can be compiled to test the tenets and predictions of this most social constructionist of accounts of human behavior. Appearing so far to act as a defense, in contradistinction to the Gove (1975) book which was by-and-large a – intelligent – attack, the calumny just now accruing to the (until recently) influential deterrence theory makes revisiting the alternatives all the more urgent a task.

[Ràj Kûmàrdo, find my Qoute" be good do good things wil · Rating 4 out of 5]

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