A2 Sociology of Crime and Deviance overview

Hi, a list of the topics you need to know for the A2 Crime and Deviance exam -( SCLY4) – of course if you’re one of my own students you already have this, but I thought it might be useful to some of the other 40 000 sociology students out there in the UK –

Strictly speaking it is irrational to share this information in a market driven education system – but given that this site and the majority of sociologists probably stand against market driven public services, sharing seems appropriate.

A2 Sociology Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods – List of topics

Crime and Deviance – List of topics

  1. Consensus based theories – Functionalism; Social control’ theory; Strain theory and Sub cultural theory
  2. The Traditional Marxist perspective on crime
  3. Labeling Theory and The New Criminology
  4. Left- Realist and Right-Realist Criminology
  5. Post-Modernism, Late-Modernism and Crime
  6. Crime statistics
  7. Environmental approaches to crime
  8. The media and crime
  9. Methods of controlling crime – policing and punishment

10. Social Class, Age,  Ethnicity and crime

11. Gender and crime  (including Girl gangs and Rape and domestic violence)

12. Victimology

13. Global crime, State crime and Environmental crime – also Green crime

Crime in Context – list of methods and some possible topics

  • Experiments
  • Surveys
  • Interviews
  • Observations
  • Documents
  • Official statistics
Applied to…
  • Different crimes – eg street crime or corporate crime
  • Different groups – eg gender ethnicity
  • Different ‘actors’ – eg police, criminals.
  • Different settings – eg domestic, street, prison

Theory and Methods

  1. Positivism and Interpretivism
  2. Is Sociology a science/ Can Sociology be value free?
  3. Suicide
  4. Sociology and social policy
  5. Functionalism
  6. Marxism
  7. Feminism
  8. Interactionism
  9. Post Modernism

10. All of the pure methods stuff from AS Sociology

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