Crime and Deviance Overview [full]
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Unit 4: Crime & Deviance with Theory & Methods
Curriculum Overview
Topic 1: Sociological Theories of Crime and Deviance
You are expected to know each theory in-depth, the evaluations of each theory and also how they compare and contrast with other theories. These are to be applied across all other topics within Unit 4.
· Functionalism
· Marxism
· Radical Criminology
· Left and Right Realism
· Interactionism
· Postmodernism
· Subcultural
· Feminism: Radical, Liberal, Marxist, Difference
· Measurements of Crime: Police-Recorded Crime, British Crime Survey, Self-Report Studies
Topic 2: Distribution of Crime: Age, Gender, Ethnicity, Location
Age
· Official statistics – changing patterns
· Age crime curve
· Statistical evidence of offending and victimisation
· Subcultural theories and youth crime
Gender
· Official statistics – changing patterns
· Policing and Criminal Justice System (chivalry thesis, double deviance)
· Men v Women in terms of crime and victimisation
· Gender role socialisation
· Biological Theories
· Sex Role Theory (Functionalism)
· Feminist perspectives (Patriarchal control, Heidensohn, Gender Deal, Carlen)
· Opportunity
· Liberationist Theory
· Masculinity (Winlow – Sunderland Bouncers)
· Edgework (Lyng)
· Seductions of Crime (Katz - Postmodernism)
Ethnicity
· Official statistics – changing patterns
· Institutional Racism in Policing (Canteen culture, Labelling, Stop & Search, typical delinquent, MacPherson Report, Scarman Report)
· Left Realism
· Poverty and Social Exclusion
· Neo-Marxism: Gilroy “Myth of Black Criminality”, Hall et al Crisis of Capitalism (Mugging)
· Triple Quandary Theory (Sewell)
· Subcultural Theories
· Statistical Artefact Approach
Location (Ecological explanations)
· Inner city v Rural crime
· Social Disorganisation Theory (Shaw & McKay)
· Tipping (Baldwin & Bottoms)
·…
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