ReviseSociology

Category: Crime and Deviance

  • Evaluate the View that Crime and Deviance are Inevitable and Beneficial for Individuals and Society as a Whole

    One answer to this AQA A-Level Sociology crime and deviance exam question drawing on Functionalist, Marxist and Labelling Theory perspectives.

  • Sociology Applied to #GentleMinions

    Shock Horror – groups of older children have been ‘descending’ on cinemas recently to ‘disruptively watch’ the latest Despicable Me Movie – Minions: The Rise of Gru. These children have been meeting up at cinemas in groups as large as 50, dressed in suits and calling themselves ‘Gentleminions’ and filming themselves getting up to various…

  • The Mass Shooter Database…

    Mass shootings per year in America are increasing, and some recent research from the Violence Project aims to help us understand why this is. For students of A-level Sociology this is a useful case study relevant to both research methods and crime and deviance. The project has interviewed hundreds of people convicted of mass shootings…

  • Advanced Information for A-Level Sociology June 2022: Crime, Deviance, Social Order and Social Control….

    The AQA have ‘very generously’ informed A-level sociology students that the 30 mark essay question in the June 2022 exam will be on the topic area of ‘crime, deviance, social order and social control’. The problem is that this doesn’t necessarily narrow down the specific content of the question that much. In fact, this ‘advice’…

  • The Ben Kinsella Trust – A Useful Resource for Knife Crime Teaching Resources

    Knife Crime statistics have remained stubbornly high over the last few years, and this is in spite of ongoing campaigns to reduce it. One such organisation which campaigns to reduce Knife Crime is the Ben Kinsella Trust, named after a teenage victim of Knife Crime from 2008. The charity has produced numerous teaching resources aimed…

  • Women are Receiving more Online Abuse than Ever…

    Social Media can be a toxic place for women who are getting more online hate than ever, while companies such as Facebook prefer to profit from this trend rather than protect the female victims, and the police lack the expertise (or the resources/ willpower) to do anything about it either. This is based on research…

  • Organised Crime Thrived During the Coronavirus Pandemic

    Criminal Contagion: How Mafias, Gangsters and Scammers profit from a Pandemic is a recent study produced by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime. As the title suggests the book is an exploration of how Organised Crime has exploited opportunties during the Pandemic, and been thriving as a result. As lockdowns closed down businesses, Organised…

  • Hidden Girls – A Documentary on the Exploitation of Girls in Gangs

    Gangs in the UK are increasingly ‘recruiting’ very young girls, as young as 10, to hold and run drugs and weapons for them and, for the even more unfortunate, to use as sex-slaves. It seems that girls are very much the victims within gangs, as they have very little chance of moving up the gang…

  • What are the Impacts of Crime on Victims?

    Students of A-level sociology are required to study Victimology as part of the Crime and Deviance compulsory module, which means examiners can legitimately ask them this question! What are the impacts of crime on Victims? Victim Support notes the following ways in which crime can affect victims in the short and long term: Feeling upset…

  • The Economic and Social Costs of Crime

    This topic is an important part of the Victimology topic, which students of A-level sociology will study as part of the Crime and Deviance option in their second year of study. The Economic and Social Costs of Crime in England and Wales The Home Office produces an annual report on the Economic and Social Impacts…