sociology 3b — crime and deviance

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Decks in this class (15)

topic 1 — intro to crime and deviance
Define crime,
Define deviance,
What is crime and deviance relati...
14  cards
topic 2 — measuring crime
What is the social distribution o...,
3 main measures of crime,
4 advantages of police statistics
10  cards
topic 3 — Functionalist Explanations Of Crime
What do functionalists believe ab...,
Emile durkheim on crime,
Merton 1938 on crime
5  cards
topic 4 — Marxist explanations of crime
Snider 1993 on crime,
Gordon 1976 on crime,
Radical criminology form of neo m...
4  cards
Topic 5: Interactionist explanations of crime
Howard becker 1963 crime,
Cicourel on crime,
Stanley cohen
4  cards
Topic 6: Subcultural explanations of crime
Deviant and criminal subcultures ...,
Miller functional deviant crimina...,
Matza on criminal youth subcultur...
10  cards
topic 7 - New Right explanations of crime
Murray on crime,
Murray and herrnstein,
Marsland
4  cards
topic 8 - realist explanations of crime and deviance
Wilson and kelling,
Clarke rational choice theory,
Hirschi
8  cards
Topic 9 - solutions to crime/social policies
Situational crime prevention,
Environmental crime prevention,
Retributive justice
8  cards
topic 10 - feminist explanations of crime and deviance
Postmodern feminism smart and cain,
Radical feminism women are victim...,
Liberal feminists women commit le...
4  cards
topic 11 - gender and crime
Gender and crime offending,
Gender and crime victimisation,
Liberation theory adler
5  cards
topic 12 - ethnicity and crime
Ethnicity and victimisation,
Ethnicity and offending,
Higher offending levels of ethnic...
6  cards
topic 13 - social class and crime
Merseyside and islington crime su...,
Stats from youth detention centre...,
Reiner
10  cards
topic 14 - age and crime
Katz and lyng,
Miller,
Matza
5  cards
topic 15 - crime in a global context
Misha glenny 2008,
Noam chomsky,
3  cards

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