Derived from the social reaction theory, the labeling theory deals with how offenders react to how society classifies them in which seems to influence further offending as well as more extremely. According to Tibbetts (2012), the theory assumes two perspectives about the people labeled; negative labeling of those living in lower class or minorities and they have no choice but to conform to the theory referred to as hands-off policy.
The hands-off policy was convincing in the 1960s and early 1970s to policy makers, while on the other hand critics believed it to be bias in sentencing. This led to the influential work by George Mead and Charles Cooley, who work focused on the mind, self, and society of how people react and are influenced by …show more content…
Before, it was based on false stereotypes so theories broke it down into two categories: gender ratio issue and generalizability. Gender ration issue contended that that that females offender far less and less serious crimes than males. While generalizability generalized why females offended, generalizing them to males (Tibbetts, 2012). Due to feminist research of todays and yesterday females concerning freedom and rights, the feminist theories of crime went further to include perspectives. These perspectives included liberal feminism, which showed females did not offend because of lack of education or other opportunities. Critical or radical feminism, which emphasized how males were dominate over aspects of society (Tibbetts, 2012). Marxist feminism, which held that men also controlled economic success that Marxist believed, did not explain much about female criminality. Socialist feminism emphasized how women should take control of their body in order to control their criminality. Last postmodern feminism, states that understanding of women as a group, will probably never be understood to understand why women offend (Tibbetts,
The hands-off policy was convincing in the 1960s and early 1970s to policy makers, while on the other hand critics believed it to be bias in sentencing. This led to the influential work by George Mead and Charles Cooley, who work focused on the mind, self, and society of how people react and are influenced by …show more content…
Before, it was based on false stereotypes so theories broke it down into two categories: gender ratio issue and generalizability. Gender ration issue contended that that that females offender far less and less serious crimes than males. While generalizability generalized why females offended, generalizing them to males (Tibbetts, 2012). Due to feminist research of todays and yesterday females concerning freedom and rights, the feminist theories of crime went further to include perspectives. These perspectives included liberal feminism, which showed females did not offend because of lack of education or other opportunities. Critical or radical feminism, which emphasized how males were dominate over aspects of society (Tibbetts, 2012). Marxist feminism, which held that men also controlled economic success that Marxist believed, did not explain much about female criminality. Socialist feminism emphasized how women should take control of their body in order to control their criminality. Last postmodern feminism, states that understanding of women as a group, will probably never be understood to understand why women offend (Tibbetts,