- Secondary Deviance- Committing crime after internalizing the criminal label from the primary deviance, seeing themselves as a criminal

Ohio State University, Columbus

- Becoming a deviant person happens in steps, initially through the Primary Deviant action and then the progression to Secondary Deviance


Edwin Lemert's Labeling Theory

Schmalleger, F. (2014). Criminology (The Justice Series). Criminology (2nd ed.). Pearson. https://archive.org/details/criminology0000schm. 

- Primary Deviance- Commit a crime to solve a problem
