1: How does labeling describe why adolescent behavior is partially driven by societal responses to the youth’s identity and behavior?2: What are the different types of labeling theories, their empirical strengths, and their relationships to juvenile justice practice?3: Identify the history of conflict explanations of behavior dating to the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.4: Explain the theory of differential oppression, which states that delinquency is a consequence of the oppressive ways that adults think about and treat children.5: Identify the overall place of labeling and conflict explanations of delinquency compared to other theories of crime.
