Category Archives: Crime and Deviance

Lesson objective To explore green crime Lesson outcomes • Assess whether green crime increases or decreasing• Evaluate how green crime impacts crime• Explain examples of green crime Overview Wolf (2011) points out that green crime also known as environmental crime and also eco (confusing I know) is usually a crime that relates to breaking environmentalContinue reading “Green crime – Crime and Deviance”

Lesson objective To explore globalisation in crime Lesson outcomes • Assess how globalisation promotes crime• Evaluate how globalisation impacts crime• Explain examples of global crime Overview Held and McGrew (2007) define globalisation as ‘the widening, deepening, and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness”.  The nature and extent of global crime Karofi and Mwanza (2006) and CastellsContinue reading “Globalisation – Crime and Deviance”

Lesson objective To explore social class in crime Lesson outcomes • Assess why white collar crime is increasing• Evaluate sociological contributions• Explain what official statistics show Overview Newburn (2007) identifies a weakness in current sociological approaches as they tend to focus on crimes that consist of powerless crimes, rather than powerful crimes. E.g. working classContinue reading “Social class – Crime and Deviance”

Lesson objective To explore gender in crime Lesson outcomes • Assess the gap between males and females• Evaluate sociological contributions• Explain what official statistics show The facts Official statistics highlight that globally, males commit far more crimes than women. This creates a gender gap, which if you read the stretch and challenge, shows is minimising.Continue reading “Gender – Crime and Deviance”

Lesson objective To explore different ethnicities’ educational achievement Lesson outcomes • Assess different ethnicities achievement• Evaluate their impact• Explain how different ethnicities experience education This section requires you to understand how different ethnicities in the UK have different educational experiences. A good idea to show off skills in your exam is to include some factsContinue reading “Ethnicity – Crime and Deviance”

Lesson objective To explore the usefulness of crime statistics Lesson outcomes • Assess how recording crime can be improved• Evaluate their usefulness• Explain where crime statistics come from Please see the following link. This is a report that highlights crime trends (longitudinal) Please see the following link to see current trends. You need to makeContinue reading “Trends – Crime and Deviance”

Lesson objective To explore the usefulness of crime statistics Lesson outcomes • Assess how recording crime can be improved• Evaluate their usefulness• Explain where crime statistics come from Where do crime statistics come from? Police Recorded Crimes (PRC) – These are statistics from the police on crimes that have been reported and recorded to them.Continue reading “Crime statistics – Crime and Deviance”

Lesson objective To explore the postmodernist approach the crime Lesson outcomes • Assess its relevance in today’s society• Analyse the perspective• Explain what postmodernists believe Overview Postmodernists believe that society is diverse, fragmented and ever changing, therefore the term ‘crime’ is a social construction based on a narrow set of legal definitions. Therefore what weContinue reading “Postmodermism – Crime and Deviance”

Lesson objective To explore the realist approach to crime Lesson outcomes • Assess its relevance in today’s society• Analyse the perspective• Explain what realists believe Within realism, there are two opposing sides, Left Realism and Right Realism. Left Realism attempts to solve crime by assessing the reasons why people commit those crimes. Right Realism attemptsContinue reading “Realism – Crime and Deviance”

Lesson objective To explore the feminist approach to crime Lesson outcomes • Assess its relevance in today’s society• Analyse the perspective• Explain what feminists believe The file, left, is an excellent resource to use when studying the Feminist approach as it also tied with theory and methods to help in that section. It’s around 27Continue reading “Feminist theories – Crime and Deviance”