Labeling theory focuses on: a. the social process through which people become deviants. b. the social process through which law enforcement learns to recognize the signs of deviance. c. the ways in which society labels different kinds of activities as deviant. d. rehabilitation of deviants through appropriate interven

The labeling theory is the theory that stemming out from a sociological perspective called symbolic interaction-ism. A school of thought is based on ideas that Herbert mead, john dewy, A therton Cooley and others. the first and most important labeling psychologist was Howard Becker. Many scholars try to shift the criminology towards the effects in the power of the responding behavior in a negative way, they called labeling theorists. It is also called social reaction theorists. These theorists suggest that powerful person and state crate crimes by labeling some inappropriate behavior. These theorists mainly focus on the reaction of these people towards crime and deviance that separated them from other scholars. As a member of the society treat them as labeled theorists. critical to this theory was that any negative reaction to a particular behavior caused that behavior is to be labeled as deviant behavior or criminal behavior.