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Created: October 5, 2000
Latest update: December 26, 2000
jeanne

Lecture Notes on Lemert's Theory of Secondary Deviance.

Information on this concept was taken from pp. 199-203 of Williams and McShane's Criminology Theory, Second Edition, Anderson Publishing, 1998. ISBN: 0-87084-201-3 (pbk).

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Lemert, in his theory of secondary deviance, says that:

1. Deviance is secondary to character traits and tendencies.

2. Deviance matters less than the labels we place on those who are deviant.

3. We must stop at its inception the first tendency towards deviance.

4. We are often mistaken in the deviant label we apply to some instances of behavior.