Tannenbaum's Subculture Theory Summary

brought to attention of the criminal justice system has then been “tagged”. Tannenbaum described it best when he said, “The entire process of making the criminal is a process of tagging, defining, identifying, segregating, describing, emphasizing, making conscious and self-conscious; it becomes a way of stimulating, suggesting, emphasizing, and evoking the very traits that are complained of.” (Tannenbaum, page 19). He or she then takes on the appropriate “tag”. This leads the “evil” to be further aggravated by the justice system. As stated previously, Tannenbaum presented the labeling idea through the groundwork of a subculture theory of crime. He also stated the confinement of the individual from a tag then advances him or her “into companionship with other children similarly defined, and the gang becomes his/her means of escape” (Tannenbaum, page 20). Goffman then succeedingly altercated that individuals who acquire a “particular stigma tend to have similar learning experiences . . . a similar moral career” (Goffman, page 32). Tannenbaum’s guidelines established from the dramatization of evil were focused on attacking an assembly of defenders rather than one individual. In 1967, Lemert was the next person to explore self, deviance, and society. He created the idea of societal reaction in 1951 and secondary deviance in 1967. He …show more content…
Kituse used data from homosexuality that implied that the main feature of defining a deviant process is not the behavior of the individual but more or less the analysis other people have of the behaviors. He wrapped up his ideas that the criminological theory must have multiple approaches to divulge the counteraction to behaviors rather than containing only hypotheses about