Labeling Theory Of Mass Shooting

Jessica, great topic and presentation. It’s interesting that you included labeling theory in your research about mass shootings. By placing labels on these delinquents and stigmatizes them, leads them into developing a negative self-image. If a child is labeled as a criminal or delinquent and they hear every day, whether it be from family members, peers or teachers, they will hold these as self-fulfilling prophecies, believing the labels that are assigned to them. This in fact, leads that child in acting as the label. I find it sad that youths abandon the social norms because they (he/she) believes that they’re a bad person and that doing certain things (evil/bad) is for the best. I agree that once a person has been labeled through secondary