Created by harry.vinall
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What is the difference between crime and deviance?
Why is deviance socially defined?
What is formal social control and what are the agencies of it?
Define informal social control.
What explanation would the New Right provide for crime and deviance?
How does subcultural theory explain crime and deviance?
What did Cohen argue?
How could relative deprivation provide an explanation for C&D?
How do Marxist sociologists explain crime?
How could labelling theory explain crime? (what did Cicourel argue?)
Give the two main ways of measuring crime levels in Britain?
Why are police statistics not 100% accurate?
Why are crime statistics a social construct?
What are victim surveys?
What are self-report surveys? Give an example.
Give one disadvantage for each of the following: self report surveys, victim surveys.
What impact does age have on an individuals likelihood to be involved in crime?
What impact does gender have on an individuals likelihood to be involved in crime? What explanations are there for this? How has this trend changed?
How does your ethnicity affect your likelihood to be involved in crime? Why do some sociologists challenge the official statistics?
How does social class affect the likelihood of you being involved in crime according to official statistics? What reasons are given for this?
Generally in which areas is crime highest? Suggest why this is?
What three types of research are used to study the impact of crime on victims?
What impact does crime and deviance have on society?
What are the negative impacts of white collar and corporate crime?
What impacts can media coverage of youth crime have?
How has the government tried to reduce youth crime?
Define anomie.
Define corporate crime
Define indictable offence
What are the different levels of the judiciary.
Define master status
Define socially defined behaviour in terms of crime and deviance
Why do sociologists believe we have social order?
Define white collar crime