Labelling Theory Of Youth Deviance

Understanding why individuals engage in deviant behaviour in many opinion is important for people to investigate whether youth deviance has increased over the years as we need to understand the situations that may cause deviance and how deviance is learned. Many believe this is an important factor as, society now could be the cause of the behaviour. This assignment will investigate not only how and why deviance has occurred but also to see if deviance within youths is on the climb. There are many theories that claim they have the answer to why youths are deviant. One some tend to agree with is the labelling theory, the Labelling theory looks at why and how people commit crime but only few are deemed as deviant. It also investigates the …show more content…
Firstly, the media perspective. many believe the media today is a lot more concentrated on youth deviance, results of this can be seen in regards to folk devils Connection between media and moral panic. In 1964 the media installed fear to the people of Britain regarding the youth culture. It was the new big scare and a threat to public safety, due to this youth were now seen as folk devils. The main purpose of the media is to simply exaggerate the situation as it helps its sales, people like to be scared and those that do not like to be educated into knowing what is happening and how to handle the situation. The bigger the media make a story the more they profit they make this moves into moral panic which is caused by the media the chain goes as follows they increase interest by making the story seem more exclusive using exaggeration this in turn causes the public to be concerned, due to the public being concerned they increase policing to ensure safety, this makes all acts deviant or not look suspicious which leads to more arrests which brings us back to increased media attention as due to the arrests it automatically makes the medias original story correct which means the public have even more faith in the media and tabloids which goes back to public concern. “Calling something a 'moral …show more content…
There are many examples of ‘deviance’ from the past which are socially accepted today as ‘normal’ some examples are, being homosexual or bisexual, until the late 60’s early 70’s this was an illness and was not to be embraced. Soldiers were abused and discharged from the army due to their sexuality and most people felt the need to keep their sexuality a secret which today is wrong, today we feel you should embrace your sexuality and same sex marriage has now been legalised. Interracial couples were also frowned upon and many people were arrested but today it is considered normal to be in a relationship with whomever you like and are strongly discouraged from judging people by race. This goes to show that society develop and dictate what is deviant and what isn’t, as time goes on social norms change with