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crime and deviance

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Decks in this class (19)

Definitions
What is crime,
What is deviance,
What is the difference between cr...
4  cards
Functionalist theories
What are durkheim s views on the ...,
What are durkheim s views on the ...,
What are merton s views on the fu...
4  cards
Subcultural theories
How does cohen s 1971 subcultural...,
What is status frustration,
What are delinquent subcultures
6  cards
Control theory
What does hirschi 1969 believe,
What are hirschi s bonds 1969,
How do they explain c d
3  cards
Marxist theories
How do traditional modernist marx...,
What are the four main marxist pr...,
How is capitalist society crimino...
6  cards
Neo-Marxist theories
How do neo marxists explain crime,
How is the ruling class hegemonic,
What is moral panic
3  cards
Interactionist theories (Labelling)
How does labelling explain crime,
What are the four main ideas,
What are the two types of deviant...
4  cards
Feminist theories
How do feminist sociologists expl...,
What does heidensohn 2012 argue,
What are the issues that heidenso...
4  cards
Left-Realist theories
What do left realist theories say...,
What are some of the key issues w...,
What is relative deprivation
8  cards
Right Realist theories
What do right realist theories sa...,
What do right realists think abou...,
What do right realists think abou...
8  cards
Postmodernist theories
How do postmodernists view society,
What is dialectic materialism,
What is dialectic idealism
9  cards
Crime statistics - issues and roles
What are the major sources of sta...,
How is the validity of crime stat...,
How is the reliability of crime s...
14  cards
Crime statistics - victim/self-report surveys
What are victim surveys,
What are self report studies,
Why can victim surveys lack validity
6  cards
Crime statistics - sociological perspectives
Functionalists,
New right,
Right realists
8  cards
Crime statistics - trends
What are the trends over the last...,
What are the trends over the last...,
Who seems to be committing the mo...
3  cards
Ethnicity and crime
What do official figures suggest,
Compared with all white ethic gro...,
Compared with all white ethic gro...
9  cards
Gender and crime (women)
What do official figures suggest,
Men are proportionately more like...,
What does carlen 1988 suggest
4  cards
Gender and crime (men)
0  cards
Social class and crime
0  cards

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