Labeling Theory and Its Effects on Deviance

Labeling Theory and Its Effects on Deviance

Labeling theory is a perspective based on how individuals’ interests and behaviors can be swayed by the terms society uses to classify them, enabling the self-fulfilling prophecy which perpetuates further deviance and delinquency. Deviance describes actions and behaviors that go against formal rules that have been enacted and informal social norms. Deviance is separated into two sections, which are: one, being formal deviance which is a crime that whereby there is a transgression of enacted laws that are formal. The disobedience of norms that have not been structured in the law is another type of deviant behavior and it is called informal deviance. Belching loudly is one example…