What are the patterns of and explanations for crime and deviance?
6.2What the syllabus asks of you
- Patterns of crime and victimisation: Age
- Patterns of crime and victimisation: Social class
- Patterns of crime and victimisation: Gender
- Patterns of crime and victimisation: Ethnicity
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on age: Police targeting / stop and search
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on age: Self-fulfilling prophecy
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on age: Stereotyping
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on age: Gang culture
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on age: Socialisation and social control
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on age: Lack of opportunity
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on age: Status frustration
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on ethnicity: Institutional racism
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on ethnicity: Prejudice and discrimination
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on ethnicity: Police targeting / stop and search
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on ethnicity: Material and relative deprivation
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on ethnicity: Stereotyping
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on ethnicity: Gang culture
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on ethnicity: Status frustration
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on gender: Chivalry thesis
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on gender: Culture of masculinity
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on gender: Socialisation and social control
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on gender: Misogyny
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on gender: Stereotyping
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on gender: Gang culture
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on gender: Lack of opportunity
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on social class: Social exclusion
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on social class: Material and relative deprivation
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on social class: Inadequate socialisation
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on social class: Lack of opportunity
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on social class: Status frustration
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on social class: Power inequalities
- Explanations for crime and deviance based on social class: Police targeting / stop and search
- Sociological theories on crime and deviance: Postmodernism
- Sociological theories on crime and deviance: Interactionism (including labelling and moral panic theory)
- Sociological theories on crime and deviance: Functionalism (including the New Right, subculturalism and strain theory)
- Sociological theories on crime and deviance: Marxism
- Sociological theories on crime and deviance: Feminism
- Strengths and limitations of the different explanations for crime and deviance: Age
- Strengths and limitations of the different explanations for crime and deviance: Ethnicity
- Strengths and limitations of the different explanations for crime and deviance: Gender
- Strengths and limitations of the different explanations for crime and deviance: Social class
- Strengths and limitations of the different explanations for crime and deviance: Different sociological theories
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