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SCLY4 Crime and Deviance Revision Cards 2014

SCLY4 Crime and Deviance Revision Cards 2014. The specification at a glance. Contents. Theories of Crime and Deviance Gender and crime Age and Crime Ethnicity and Crime Social class and crime Area and Crime Mass Media and Crime Globalisation and Crime Policing and Courts

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SCLY4 Crime and Deviance Revision Cards 2014

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  1. SCLY4 Crime and Deviance Revision Cards 2014

  2. The specification at a glance

  3. Contents • Theories of Crime and Deviance • Gender and crime • Age and Crime • Ethnicity and Crime • Social class and crime • Area and Crime • Mass Media and Crime • Globalisation and Crime • Policing and Courts • Crime Prevention • Punishment • Victimology • Suicide • Measuring crime (usefulness of statistics)

  4. 1. Theories of Crime and Deviance

  5. For each theory ask…. • What influences our definition of deviance/crime? • What is the cause of crime and deviance? • Who are likely to commit crime and deviance? • What is social order based upon?

  6. CONSENSUS THEORIES

  7. Norman Dennis - ‘Families without Fatherhood’ (1993) • Trends • 30 years = family changes = weakened • Decline of the traditional family • Rise in cohabitation and decline of marriage • Issue • Family/community used to be a form of social control • They used to restrict the extremes behaviour of youth • People today struggle with ‘inner policeman’ • Crime related to: • Changing role of women = fathers now marginal • Fathers leaving families = no role model/discipline • Cohabitation = no moral fabric…values/morals are relative Farrington & West - 1990 • Findings • Study – Cambridge – Longitudinal study (1953-1990) • 1/3 of 411 boys = offenders by age 25 • Delinquency linked to: • Types of family linked to crime • Poor parenting • Fathers had criminal records • Poverty & single parenthood

  8. CONFLICT THEORIES

  9. White-Collar Crime METHODS ISSUE White collar crime is very hard to investigate due to its invisible nature!

  10. Wider origins of act, immediate origins of act, the act itself, immediate origins of societal reaction, wider origins of societal reaction, effects of labelling • Look back at your notes on GRAMSCI • Hegemony • Humanistic Marxism • Voluntarism

  11. Identity socialisation Resistance

  12. Comparing ‘Realist Theories’ of Crime & Deviance

  13. Cooley ‘looking glass self’

  14. 2. Gender and Crime

  15. 2. Gender and Crime

  16. 3. Age and Crime

  17. 4. Ethnicity and Crime

  18. 4. Ethnicityand Crime

  19. 5. Class and Crime

  20. 6. Area and Crime

  21. 7. Mass Media and Crime

  22. 8. Globalisation and Crime

  23. Demand (rich west) + Supply (3rd world)

  24. Negotiation/social construction

  25. Globalisation & Crime (bring together) Levels/types(Castells) GLOBAL CRIME Risk consciousness • Evaluation • Issue of defining crime • Objectivity/values • Political flavour (committed sociology) Global capitalism • Organisations • Glocal • McMafia Examine Globalisation & Crime STATE CRIME • GREEN CRIME • Global risk consciousness • Green criminology + harm • Types of green crime • Examples • Evaluation • What are state crimes? • The level of harm • Examples • Violations of human rights • How states conceal crimes (denial) • How states make such crime acceptable

  26. 9. Policing & Courts

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