The Importance Of Negative Labeling

People commit crimes by different reasons; yes negative labeling can be one of them but certainly is not the only one. I agree for some people, the negative labels lead to the criminal activity. Those people accept the label as their character and act on it. For each individual is different. For an example a person grow in poor family with relatives with criminal behavior most likely will be labeled as potential criminal. Per labeling theory this person would accept the negative label as a personal identity and will commit a crime. On another hand negative labeling it may stimulate this person to escape from that kind labeling and leave his life as law abiding citizen. Is more complicated, but certainly the person do not commit a crime just because is being …show more content…
As I said there is a lot of factors that playing a role when a person make that decision to commit a crime. Labeling people it has very negative impact to that person especially on the teens. But in a reality the sociality is labels some people a lot more often that we can even imagine and that has very negative impact to the person’s who’s been negatively labeled. For an example those individuals who have been in jail for couple months based on any small charges as shoplifting or drugs possession. They been labeled as criminals and integrating in the community are becoming very hard for them. Ones the individual is convicted felon there is a lot of restrictions by the law like: no access to food stamps and other government programs. Then finding a dissent job is another problem for those people and that leads them back to criminal acts and behavior. So on the question if the labels cause the crime or they are result, I will say is booth. There is no one way answer is all depends: in some cases the negative labeling lead to crime and in some cases the crime lead to