Theories of Crime and Deviance - Brathwaite | A Level Sociology

welcome to this tutor to you sociology topic video looking at theories of crime and deviance focusing on the work of john braithwaite braithwait examines crime from an interactionist perspective and as with many other interactionists examines the impact of labeling and the stigmatization of both criminal behavior and those committing the acts themselves he used the term shaming to describe the

process of labeling both of the act and the person carrying out the act and focused on social reactions to both the action and the individual braithwaite's work is more concerned with the reactions to crime than the causes yet has different applications in terms of social control and the punishment of crimes and we'll look at some of those

in this video braithwaite used the term shaming to refer to the labeling of both the act and the actor that is the person committing the crime and found that there were differences in the response to the individual if only the act was seen as criminal or deviant braithwaite like others before him suggested that labelling or shaming of

the individual committing the act is likely to lead to further deviance or reoffending he suggested that not only is an individual punished for the act but also for committing the act that is being criminal or deviant breakthrough suggested there were two ways in which labeling or shaming is applied to crime and deviance

and that these have different effects he suggested that there existed disintegrative shaming and re-integrative shaming and we'll look at each of those in more detail disintegrative shaming is often most associated with traditional interactionist ideas of the individual being labeled twice once for the act then a second label being applied to the individual as a