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The Labelling Perspective Forty Years On

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Developing throughout the earlier twentieth century, labelling theory became prominent in the 1960's, reached its heyday in the 1970's and thereafter has more or less gently faded away. Its brief history spans one or two generations of criminologists at most. In this article I sketch this history, examine the current status of labelling theory and suggest some links to what I call generational theory. As a partial focus, I also revisit an earlier article which I wrote on labelling theory during the 1970's – at the peak of labelling awareness.

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Plummer, K. (2011). The Labelling Perspective Forty Years On. In: Peters, H., Dellwing, M. (eds) Langweiliges Verbrechen. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-93402-0_5

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