GCSE Sociology-Crime and Deviance

What is crime?

What is Deviance?

What is formal social control?

Agents of formal social control?

What is informal social control?

Agents of informal social control?

What is inadequate socialisation and which group of sociologists agrees with this?

What are subcultural theories and which famous sociologist argues this?

What is relative deprivation?

What do Marxists believe about crime?

What is the Labelling Theory?

What is the self fufilling prophecy?

What are official statistics?

Why are official statistics not very factual?

What are Victim Surveys?

What do victim surveys tell us?

What are self report studies?

What is the link between crime and age?

What is an explanation for younger people committing more crime?

What is the link between gender and crime?

What is an explanation for the link between gender and crime?

What is the link between crime and ethnicity?

What is the explanation for the link between crime and ethnicity?

What is the link between social class and crime?

What is an explanation for the link between social class and crime?

What is the link between locality and crime?

What is an explanation for the link between Locality and crime?

Different methods of researching the impact of crime on victims?

Impact of crime and deviance on society?

What is white collar and corporate crime and what costs do they have?

How is youth crime a social problem?

Media labelling of youth?

Government policies designed to tackle youth crime?

Have Government policies been successful?