A Sociological Analysis Of Hannibal Lecter

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...appeared in the film Silence of the Lambs. This fictitious character, played by Anthony Hopkins is legendary. Not only that, Lecter is a stereotypical serial killer. In the film, he is in prison, and an FBI agent named Clarice interviews him in order to glean inside information as she tracks a different killer who is on the loose. Lecter appears to be evil and that is really the mystery this film expresses. In the evaluation of Lecter's character, which theories seem to ring true? What can explain his behavior? First, a look at theories in this area is appropriate.
Labeling theory is similar to the self-fulfilling prophesy where children are labeled as this or that and in the end, they turn into their labels. The bad boy grows up to be a bad man, for example. Ditton (1979) takes labeling theory a step further, and incorporates the role of the state into how people are placed in categories. One can in fact take labeling theory to its extreme in explaining...

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