A-Level Sociology Crime and Deviance Revision Bundle
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Six colour mind maps covering the following topics:
Twelve exam practice questions for the crime and deviance section of the AQA’s A-level sociology paper 3:
4 and 6 Mark ‘Outline’ Questions
Topics broken down as follows:
Six colour mind maps covering the following topics:
- Functionalist and strain theories of deviance
- Subcultural theories of deviance
- Marxist theories of deviance
- The labelling theory of deviance
- Right realist theories of crime control
- Left realist theories of crime control.
Twelve exam practice questions for the crime and deviance section of the AQA’s A-level sociology paper 3:
4 and 6 Mark ‘Outline’ Questions
- Outline three ways in which surveillance may be used to control crime in modern societies (6)
- Outline three reasons why females are less likely to commit crime than males (6)
- Outline three structural factors which may explain differences in offending by ethnicity (6)
- Outline three ways in which Racism may manifest itself in the criminal justice system (6)
- Outline two ways in which the media give a distorted view of crime (4)
- Outline two sociological explanations of state crime (4)
- Outline two reasons why people who commit ‘green crimes’ often do not get punished (4)
- Applying material from item A, analyse two ways in which crime has changed in response to postmodern society (10)
- Applying material from item A, analyse two ways reasons for differences in patterns of crime by social class background (10)
- Applying material from item A, analyse two reasons why some groups are more likely to be victims of crime than others (10)
- Evaluate sociological perspectives on the relationship between globalisation and crime (30)
- Evaluate the contribution to an understanding of crime and deviance of right and left realist approaches (30)
- Evaluate the Contribution of Consensus Theory to Our Understanding of Crime and Deviance (30)
Topics broken down as follows:
- Consensus based theories part 1 – Functionalism; Social control’ theory; Strain theory
- Consensus based theories part 2 – Sub cultural theories
- The Traditional Marxist and Neo-Marxist perspective on crime
- Labeling Theory
- Left- Realist and Right-Realist Criminology (including situational, environmental and community crime prevention)
- Post-Modernism, Late-Modernism and Crime (Social change and crime)
- Sociological Perspectives on controlling crime – the role of the community and policing in preventing crime
- Sociological Perspectives on Surveillance
- Sociological Perspectives on Punishment
- Social Class and Crime
- Ethnicity and Crime
- Gender and crime (including Girl gangs and Rape and domestic violence)
- Victimology – Why are some people more likely to be criminals than others
- Global crime, State crime and Environmental crime (Green crime)
- The Media and Crime, including moral panics
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