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What do I need to know? Meanings of crime and deviance [ ] Statistics and measuring crime [ ] Biological and psychological explanations [ ] Sociological explanations for crime [ ] Labelling [ ] Types of crime [ ] Formal and informal social control [ ] Class, Age, Gender and Ethnicity and crime [ ] Location and crime [ ] Dealing with offenders [ ] The media and crime [ ] Affects of crime [ ] Meaning of crime and deviance Using your exercise books answer the activities below.... Crime means _______________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ Deviance means ____________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ Deviance is relative because the act can have different meaning to different people. Factors which can affect an act being views as deviance include... The place The time The person The country History. Now create a Mnemonic for the letters in bold to help remember these factors... ____________________________________________________________________ Iin the 2 bubbles below write 4 examples of crime and 4 examples of deviance.... Crime Deviance Measuring crime Using your books write what the following types of statistics are.... Home office statistics ________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ Victim surveys ______________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ Self-report studies __________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ Now, find the following advantages and disadvantages of using statistics to measure crime in the word search below, and then write next to each whether it is an advantage or disadvantage. L X Q R M K I N V A L I D Q O Q B E D X L E K E O O P Y K S S U J F S Z V V A E Y Q I P U X R Y X H N I N E U J R O R S T J U T A P D T Y N L A K D C M R Z E Q Y C K B W X U H H B Q P B Q E A F A Q L W T U Y Q F D T D X Z B Y B D N F D L A G B O R E S P I H F N X E R U G I F K R A D N F T B V N G X N Y V N E Q V Y Z A T H C R I S P D I K F Z S A R J I T Z D H R F R P N N M R J T P H D W M E M R R A S E D T P D O E A T Z A S M T L R Y C E E M R X R Q B C N G S Q C T V I Z E Q L Q H B L U T U D Y I O L L Z Z N P D W R Q U G W Q P I G R L V P Y D A T E E S N O H P P L C K G Q A L O H O R D N Z T S I Y N R Y T U R F R R A B E P T M F B V J E D O A K I O E S I N I X E L Z E C F H Y U R I S U H J D A Z U C W K Q Q E O R D H K Z P Y B Q S P A A W O J I C I Y M W I W N P R E T Z Z S R T O S H S D Q L N G W P F O J X R V U W V B E K G S Y Z J I G L J P Q V L P T Y G B Y N L V DARKFIGURE _________________ EASYTOFIND _________________ INVALID _____________________ LOWREPORTRATE _____________ RELIABLE ____________________ REPRESENTATIVE ____________________ SOCIALLYCONSTRUCTED ___________________ UPTODATE _____________________________ P R V R N C A O C G Y S P R R J E S E D B I R B G Y Q S K S C N C Z U O O T T F E J R M Biological and psychological factors Look at the image of the typical criminal according to Lombroso and Eysenck and write three biological characteristics and three psychological characteristics. Biological characteristics Psychological characteristics Sociological explanations for crime Using your exercise books, design a mindmap which depicts the main reasons sociologists have argued causes crime. Labelling Answer the following activities. Labelling is ________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ Labels are negotiable because _________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ A master status is ___________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ A self-fulfilling prophecy is ____________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ For the following example, draw a cartoon help explain how a person who becomes labelled reacts to it. Person gets labelled a criminal The person negotiates the label and accepts it. Having accepted the label the person gets treated like it becoming their master status. Types of crimes. Below is a puzzle which when unscrambled will tell you about the different types of crime evident in our society. Now, in the space below add in three example of white-collar crime. Formal and informal social control Using your books answer the activities below….. Social control means _________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ Formal social control means ___________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ Informal social control means _________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ In the table below add four types of informal and formal control. Informal social control Formal social control Age and crime According to statistics people aged 16-24 commit the highest amount of crime in our society. Design a mind map which shows the reasons sociologist have offered for why this is. Gender and crime According to statistics males commit the highest amount of crime in our society. Design a mind map which shows the reasons sociologist have offered for why this is. Ethnicity and crime According to statistics Afro-Caribbean’s commit proportionally the highest amount of crime in our society. Design a mind map which shows the reasons sociologists have offered for why this is. Dealing with offenders Unscramble the following sentences given to someone guilty of an offence. barpotion ___________________________ enif ___________________________ Pinsor ___________________________ citymomnu icerevs ___________________________ baleoust cedarsigh ____________________________ loandiction racedsigh ____________________________ In the table below, write four positives and four negatives with prisons. Positives Negatives Media and crime The media play a big part in the portrayal of crime. Through the deviancy amplification spiral, events can be sparked into a moral panic. A famous example of this is the study by Stanley Cohen entitled Mods and Rockers. Here groups of teenagers were blamed for most of society’s problems at the time, leading to the media depicting them as a dangerous group needing sorting out! But, in reality they were not as dangerous as the media led us to believe.