CRIME AND DEVIANCE

CRIME AND DEVIANCE

1. LOCALITY AND CRIME

   • patterns of crime in urban and rural areas Marshall and Johnson (2005)
   • the ecology of crime, Shaw and McKay (1931)
   • more opportunity for crime. Felson and Clarke (1998)
   • Policing styles
   • less chance of getting caught
   • social deprivation

2. LIMITATIONS OF OFFICIAL CRIME STATISTICS

   • failure to report crimes to the police
   • the failure of the police to record crimes
   • is crime rate increasing?

3. CORPORATE CRIME

   • paper work and non-compliance
   • environmental/green crimes
   • manufacturing offences
   • labour law violations
   • unfair trade practices
   • financial offences
   • explanations for CC: Marxists like Box (1983)
   • why are corporate crimes under represented in official statistics

4. CRIME AND GLOBALIZATION

   • Karofi and Mwanza (2006)
   • the international illegal drug trade
   • human trafficking
   • money laundering
   • cyber crime

5. VICTIMS OF CRIME

   • victimology
   • gender and victimization
     • domestic violence: Walklate (2004)
     • rape
     • explaining rape and domestic violence
   • age and victimization: Wilson (2006
   • ethnicity and victimization
   • Social class and victimization
   • explaining victimization
     • positivist: Tierney (1996)
     • Radical victimology

6. CRIME CONTROL, PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT

   • the criminal justice system
   • does imprisonment prevent crime?
   • realist theories and social policies for crom prevention
     • left realism: social crime prevention and being tough on the causes of crime
     • right realism: situational crime prevention and being tough on the criminals
       • situational crime prevention
       • increased social control
   • displacement theory