Theories Of Teacher Sex Scandals

When looking into a criminal event as serious as presented with teacher sex scandals, it is very important to identify the reasons why this crime is taking place and set into motion a plan of action to eliminate other potential perpetrators. The labeling theory suggests that the crime of female teacher sex scandals may have taken place because either the “public” has labeled her role to be provocative or seductive, inappropriately, or that her role as the teacher, has been labeled that way in that position. Often, teachers take on sort of a motherly roll. These children spends endless amount of hours with their teacher and begin to develop relationships, it is natural. However, there are times that the teacher may test that relationship or

One reason identified is the “attention” that the teachers are getting from the student, when the student is viewed as the aggressor. “He would always tell me how beautiful I was and how I was a good person on the inside” (Owens, 2015). In this case the teacher was unhappy in her marriage and was being shown attention from one of her students. The teacher describes how she thought it was innocent and playful in the beginning until one day, she let her guard down and the teacher student sexual relationship began. It is not always the teacher aggressing or initializing the relationship, but often the teachers lack of willpower to overcome a teenagers confidence and persistence. In this case the teacher has accepted the consequence and punishment, and continues to acknowledge she gave in to an inappropriate situation. Debbie Lafave also presents a case of sexual inappropriateness with her student. In this case Debbie, at 23, had sexual relations with a 14 year old male student. In Debbie’s case, she plead insanity and due to being a model and her lawyer stating she was “too pretty for jail”, Debbie did not serve jail or prison time, but instead house arrest and probation. (Jake, 2009) Debbie claimed her choices were due to her mental instability with being diagnosed bipolar. In some cases the insanity card may be true, or may fit;