Labeling Theory: How They Become Part Of Their Personal Identity

Labeling theory takes the view that individuals become criminals when labeled become part of their personal identity. Labeling theory have a primary and secondary deviance, retroactive and prospective labeling and finally being stigmatized. Primary deviance refers to passing incidents of norm violation. Secondary deviance is when an individual keep breaking norm and starts to take on a deviant identity. A stigma is a negative social label that can dramatically changes a person's self-concept and social identity. Stigmas are extended by retrospective labeling, which is someone's past consistent with present deviance. People may, also uses projective labeling, which is when people uses a person's present deviant identity to guess future