Crime And Shaming Theory In Juveniles

Increase in Crime and the Labeling and Shaming theory in Juveniles

The words that we use to describe others has a great impact in their self meaning. If a parent or teacher is to label a child from a very young age as stupid because it was difficult for that child to understand lecture, that child would feel stupid. Let’s say the word worthless and useless was repeatedly used to describe someone, that someone would feel exactly how they are being perceived by society. What if you overheard a conversation that your parents were having, they were talking about the type of people you usually hung around with. Then you hear them come to the conclusion that no matter how well you may be doing in school or how well you were doing in general, that …show more content…
Primary deviance is a stage where the labeling theory causes an effect on an individual, in where you have both formal and an informal way to categorize and label an individual. Informal labeling is generally done by parents, peers, teachers who promote deviant behavior through perception and self-meaning. Formal labeling on the other hand causes one to involve in criminal act or deviant behavior. After primary there is secondary deviance, in this stage juveniles begin get involved and to commit criminal activity. In this stage people forget their morals and standards since regardless of how they may think society will always label them as criminals. To the point in where legal punishment is no longer going to be an effective measure of …show more content…
Juveniles tend to commit certain deviant behaviors due to how they are to be perceived by society, whether it may be labeling people as stupid, making them think that they are worthless and that they have no future ahead of them can also be a cause for someone to engage in deviant behavior. Such action does not help the when it comes to them not engaging in crime or cause them to stop criminal behavior since they are already perceived as criminals by other people in the society.
Different types of punishments for different deviant behaviors are not effective when it comes to helping the rate of crime or delinquency within juveniles to decrease. The labeling and shaming theory states how people become prone to act and also get involved in criminal behaviors especially of they are being labeled as criminals; such action causes them to identify themselves as criminals, they have the tendency to develop criminal identities and after being punished for the crime that they have committed they get excluded from conventional roles which would cause for the continuation of deviant