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3 results foundAuthor: Quinn, Susan Teresa Title: The Gang Member Label and Juvenile Justice Decision-Making Summary: Labeling theory studies have generally focused on the creation of secondary deviance through the process of internalizing the applied label. The combination of labeling theory studies focusing on secondary deviance and the belief that labeling theory was ‘dead’ as of the 1980s has created a dearth of research regarding the impact of labels on criminal or juvenile justice processing. The purpose of the current study is to determine if there is a relationship between the gang member label and juvenile justice decisions at three stages: (1) intake, (2) disposition, and (3) incarceration release. There are a total of five primary findings related to the impact of the gang member label on juvenile justice recommendations and incarceration length. Three of the five findings are significant (p<.05), including one intake decision, one disposition decision, and the length of incarceration. These three findings all support the hypothesis that the gang member label increases the severity of the recommendation and the number of days incarcerated. Variables representing the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice staffs’ perception of offender attitudes are incorporated into the analyses to determine if these variables mediate the hypothesized relationship between the gang member label and juvenile justice decisions. The findings weakly support the hypothesis that perceptions of the offenders will partially mediate the relationship between the gang member label and recommendation severity or the number of days incarcerated. However, the variables only mediate a small portion of the impact of the gang member label on the dependent variables. Finally, interaction terms are included in the analyses to see if the hypothesized impact of the gang member label on juvenile justice decision-making varies based on individual characteristics (e.g., race, sex). The hypothesis that the impact of the gang member label will vary based on demographic characteristics is largely unsupported. Details: Tallahassee: Florida State University, College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2010. 161p. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed November 23, 2011 at: http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-06142010-211407/unrestricted/Quinn_S_Dissertation_2010.pdf Year: 2010 Country: United States URL: http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-06142010-211407/unrestricted/Quinn_S_Dissertation_2010.pdf Shelf Number: 123437 Keywords: Decision-Making, Juvenile JusticeGangs (U.S.)Labeling Theory |
Author: Lloyd, Charlie Title: Sinning and Sinned Against: The Stigmatisation of Problem Drug Users Summary: This report by Charlie Lloyd (University of York) aims to summarise what the research evidence has to tell us about the stigmatisation of problem drug users; to explore the nature of this stigmatisation, its impacts and why it happens. These considerations raise some fundamental issues about the nature of addiction and the extent to which it is seen as a moral, medical or social issue. They also raise important questions about autonomy and the blame attached to addiction. The report is the first instalment of a wider research project, funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation with additional funding from the Scottish Drug Recovery Consortium, which will also include: i) a public attitudes survey (modelled on the Department of Health annual attitudes to mental illness survey) ii) with a study of the experiences of users and families iii) an analysis of how drug users are portrayed in the media. Details: London, United Kingdom: The UK Drug Policy Commission (UKDPC) Source: Internet Resource: Accessed on January 27, 2012 at http://www.ukdpc.org.uk/resources/Stigma_Expert_Commentary_final.pdf Year: 0 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.ukdpc.org.uk/resources/Stigma_Expert_Commentary_final.pdf Shelf Number: 123845 Keywords: Drug Abuse (U.K.)Labeling TheoryMediaPublic Opinion (U.K.) |
Author: Ristroph, Alice Title: Farewell to the Felonry Summary: Bastard. Idiot. Imbecile. Pauper. Felon. These terms, medieval in origin, have served as formal legal designations and also the brands of substantial social stigma. As legal designations, the terms marked persons for different sorts of membership in a political community. The rights and privileges of these persons could be restricted or denied altogether. Today, most of these terms have been abandoned as labels for official classifications. But the terms felon and felony remain central to American criminal law, even after other developed democracies have formally abolished the felon/felony category. "Felony" has connotations of extreme wickedness and an especially severe crime, but the official legal meaning of felony is a pure legal construct: any crime punishable by more than a year in prison. So many and such disparate crimes are now felonies that there is no unifying principle to justify the classification. And yet, the designation of a crime as a felony, or of a person as a felon, still carries great significance. Even beyond the well-documented "collateral" consequences of a felony conviction, the classification of persons as felons is central to the mechanics of mass incarceration and to inequality both in and out of the criminal justice system. American law provides the felonry - the group of persons convicted of felonies - a form of subordinate political membership that contrasts with the rights and privileges of the full-fledged citizenry. The felon should go the way of the bastard, into the dustbins of legal history. If that outcome seems unlikely, it is worth asking why a category long known to be incoherent should be so difficult to remove from the law. This Article examines felony in order to scrutinize more broadly the conceptual structure of criminal law. Criminal laws, and even their most common critiques and arguments for reform, often appeal to the same naturalistic understanding of crime and punishment that gives felon its social meaning. When we imagine crime as a natural, pre-legal wrong and the criminal as intrinsically deserving of suffering, we displace responsibility for the law's burdens from the community that enacts the law and the officials that enforce it. To bid farewell to the felonry could be a first step toward reclaiming responsibility for our criminal law. Details: Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Law School, 2018. 56p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 18, 2019 at: http://harvardcrcl.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Ristroph.pdf Year: 2018 Country: United States URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3280347 Shelf Number: 154259 Keywords: ClassificationFelonFelonyIdentityLabeling TheoryMass IncarcerationSocial Stigma |