... by a feeling held by a substantial number of a members of a given society, that evil-doers pose a threat to society and to the moral order as a consequence of their behaviour. Press reports described a minor disorder involving the two groups and unattached youths at the seaside as a riot. Worse disorder between mods and rockers was predicted and became a self-fulfilling prophecy as youth polarized into the two groups, and more extensive policing produced more arrests, e.g. for obstructing the police. Self-fulfilling prophecy is a term which occurs when a group of people are labelled as being deviant maybe and it creates them to act to that label. J. Young used the interactionalist perspective to explain 'the role of the police as amplifiers of deviancy, negotiators of reality and translators of fantasy. Young explained the special role of the police and courts in amplifying deviance associated with drug ...

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