Factors influencing delabeling inconsistency
| dc.contributor.author | Bobys, Richard Steven | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Sociology | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-26T19:53:27Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2019-03-26T19:53:27Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 1977 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The public stigmatization of ex-deviants, in particular ex-convicts and ex-mental patients, was conceptualized from the labeling theoretical perspective as "delabeling inconsistency" (DI). A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 281 residents of Henry County, Virginia in order to identify factors that contributed to the DI of ex-convicts and ex-mental patients (i.e., the respondents' stigmatization of these ex-deviants). The variables proposed to be related to the dependent variable - DI - were: #1) the respondent's age; #2) the respondent's highest achieved educational levels; #3) the degree of dangerousness that the respondent attributes to the ex-deviant; #4) the amount of interaction that the respondent attributes to a total institution (e.g., a prison or a mental hospital) in having completely treated the ex-deviant (e.g., an ex-convict or an ex-mental patient); #6) the degree of responsibility that the respondent attributes to the ex-deviant for his behaviors; and, #7) the degree of seriousness that the respondent attributes to the ex-deviant's former deviance. Using path analysis, it was found thats dangerousness (variable #3) and seriousness (#7) were directly related to the DI of both ex-convicts and ex-mental patients; interaction (#4) and effectiveness (#5) were inversely related to the DI of both ex-convicts and ex-mental patients; education (#2) was inversely related to the DI of ex-mental patients and was essentially unrelated to the DI of ex-convicts; responsibility (#6) had an inverse relationship with the DI of ex-mental patients and a direct relationship with the DI of ex-convicts; and, age (#1) had a negligible relationship with the DI of both ex-convicts and ex-mental patients. The variable that materialized as the most influential independent and intervening variable with the DI of both ex-convicts and ex-mental patients was dangerousness (#3). | en |
| dc.description.degree | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
| dc.format.extent | v, 185 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/88708 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | en |
| dc.relation.isformatof | OCLC# 40244644 | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject.lcc | LD5655.V856 1977.B625 | en |
| dc.title | Factors influencing delabeling inconsistency | en |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en |
| dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | en |
| thesis.degree.level | doctoral | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
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