Teoria del etiquetamiento apliacada en los procesos de registro personal que hace la policía metro en la estación Poblado y Parque Berrio

Abstract

This article reports on an investigation on Labeling Approach theory applied in the personal registration processes carried out by the metro police in the Poblado and Parque Berrío stations of the Medellin-Ant metropolitan train, during the 2020-1 semester. This theory emerged in the 1960s in the United States and deals with the implication of social stigmatization and, consequently, how punitive state institutions characterize individuals as "social deviants", leading them to accept themselves as criminals and assume a lifestyle. tax. A qualitative analysis of interviews is carried out with the Atlas.TI program and a quantitative analysis of surveys with dynamic Excel tables on the labeling theory carried out on a sample of 4 metro police officers and 100 users of the Poblado and Parque Berrío stations of the Medellín metropolitan train. . The theory is applied to the registration processes carried out by the police to the users of the Medellín metropolitan train, the results are examined taking into account the different theoretical concepts of labeling, determining if there is a relationship between the decisions to select users for registration. Metro Police personnel, and the particularities of the Labeling Approach theory applied. Keywords: Labelling Approach overview, discrimination, personal record, criminology and deviance, social reaction.