Disadvantages Of Labelling Research Paper

Labelling perspectives employ a social constructionist view on crime. The premise of crime and criminal behaviour is shaped by the interactions and labels formed by members of the criminal justice system. Labels cause individuals to personify one another, formulating a stigma against each other. Those who are identified as criminal and/or deviant by the criminal justice system and society, are the individuals who are most affected by the process of stigmatisation. A moral panic is referred to the growing fear of a threat to societal norms and values. Media usage is the prime method for spreading this fear; and media presenters exaggerate their arguments to invoke a societal reaction towards the subject. The moral panic in the media article is Islamaphobia. Miranda Devine in her argument had made

She continuously uses words that invoke a negative impact of the perception of the reader such as “terrorist”, “threat”, “victim” and “victimhood”. The negative label associated with Muslims is important as one of the disadvantages of labelling is that the person being labelled may take on the role of acting according to that label. An example of this in the article is seen when Miranda Devine speaks of the counter-protest which was sparked by the ten year anniversary of the Cronulla Riots. She claims that many Muslim “thugs” had gone to Cronulla armed with baseball bats and had destroyed public property and threatened people. In summary, the article is based around the notion that the Sydney siege that took place in 2014 was a terrorist attack which should be known as that. Also, Muslims are not victims; in fact, they retaliate in the face of