CRIME & DEVIANCE

CRIME & DEVIANCE

1. Quantitative data

   • Official Crime Statistics
     • Perspectives
   • Victim Surveys (CSEW)
   • Self-report Studies
   • Crime as socially patterned behaviour

2. Qualitative data

   • Ethnographic research
   • Participant observation
   • Unstructured interviews
   • Compare and contrast with quantitative data

3. Theories

   • Positivism & biological theories
   • Functionalism & strain theory
   • Ecological/environmental theories
   • The nocturnal economy & crime
   • Subcultural
   • Interactionism/labelling
   • Classical Marxism
   • Neo-Marxism
   • The New Criminology
   • New Left Realism
   • Right Realism
   • Control Theory

4. Mass media & crime

   • Moral Panics
   • Deviancy Amplification
   • Social Construction of crime
   • News values and agenda setting

5. Social distribution of crime: gender

   • Feminist Theories: Marxist, Radical & Post Modernist
   • Patterns of Offending, Victimization & Punishment
   • Changing Ideology of Femininity and Masculinity

6. Social distribution of crime: race

   • Inter Minority Ethnic Group Differences (IMEGD)
   • Intra-Racial Crime
   • Policing & Institutional Racism
   • The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
   • Patterns of Offending, Victimization & Punishment
   • Stop and Search

7. Globalization & crime

   • Globalized crimes e.g Web based
   • Global Trade in drugs, weapons & people
   • Global Corporate Crime

8. Green crime

   • Environmental Offences
   • Extent and Enforcement of Green Crime
   • Crimes against Non-Human Species

9. Human rights & state crime

   • International rules and norms
   • Violation of International rules and norms
   • State Crimes
   • Human Rights Violations

10. Suicide

    • Why are Sociologists interested in studying suicide?
    • What is the suicide rate?
    • How have Sociologists tried to apply theory & concepts to suicide
    • Can suicide have social causes?