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Meanings of crime and deviance
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Statistics and measuring crime
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Biological and psychological explanations
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Sociological explanations for crime
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Labelling
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Types of crime
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Formal and informal social control
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Class, Age, Gender and Ethnicity and crime
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Location and crime
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Dealing with offenders
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The media and crime
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Affects of crime
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Meaning of crime and deviance
Using your exercise books answer the activities below....
Crime means _______________________________________________________________________
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Deviance means ____________________________________________________________________
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Deviance is relative because the act can have different meaning to different people. Factors which
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Now create a Mnemonic for the letters in bold to help remember these factors...
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Iin the 2 bubbles below write 4 examples of crime and 4 examples of deviance....
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Measuring crime
Using your books write what the following types of statistics are....
Home office statistics ________________________________________________________________
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Victim surveys ______________________________________________________________________
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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 ________________________________________________________________________
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Labels are negotiable because _________________________________________________________
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A master status is ___________________________________________________________________
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A self-fulfilling prophecy is ____________________________________________________________
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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.
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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.
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Formal and informal social control
Using your books answer the activities below…..
Social control means _________________________________________________________________
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Formal social control means ___________________________________________________________
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Informal social control means _________________________________________________________
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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.
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In the table below, write four positives and four negatives with prisons.
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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.