This post is an update of some of the evidence that might suggest the police in England and Wales are Racist. This is a key topic within the sociology of Crime and Deviance. You can view a summary of the latest statistics on ethnicity and crime here. This 2018 Video from News Night is worth … Continue reading “Are the Police Racist?”
The latest figures on Police Stop and Search show that black people are now nine times more likely than white people to be stopped and searched by the police. This is a key statistics relevant to the A-level Sociology crime and deviance module. And I must say this is a thoroughly depressing trend, as the … Continue reading “Why are Black People Stopped and Searched more Often by the Police?”
How has the pandemic and the societal reaction to the pandemic (changes in policing practices and lockdown) affected trends in crime? Some recent research sheds some light on this and offers us a useful update for Crime statistics. Langton et al (2021) investigated 13 categories of Police Recorded Crime during March to August 2020 to … Continue reading “How Did Lockdown Affect crime?”
According to the United Nations there are an estimated 476 million indigenous peoples in the world in 2020, spread across 90 countries and they make up over half of the world’s 5000 distinct cultures. For A-level sociology students studying the Global Development option, it is very useful to know something about Indigenous Peoples as they … Continue reading “The Role of Indigenous Peoples in Development”
How successful has economic and social development in Kenya been since the year 2000? This post has primarily been written for students studying the global development option for A-level sociology. The purpose of this post is to provide a specific example of a country which has, overall, experienced rapid and positive development over the last … Continue reading “Economic and Social Development in Kenya since 2000”
Why are some countries poor and others rich?
Since the 1960s marriage rates are down, and cohabitation and divorce rates are up!
The Italian covid-19 mortality rate is so high because they record the number of people dying with the disease RATHER than deaths from the disease.
Below I summarise the 2018 AQA’s examiner report for crime and deviance with theory and methods and add in the questions, which aren’t in the report. You can get both the report and the question paper here! General Advice Most students seem to have managed their time appropriately, with few signs that they were unable … Continue reading “Exam Advice from the AQA’s 2018 Examiner Report – Paper 3 (Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods)”
The easy answer is to say around 22% of the population, roughly 14 million people. The long answer starts with the sentence ‘it depends on how you define and measure poverty’, in which case you get various different statistics on the poverty rate. Statistics on poverty in the UK According to the Social Metrics Foundation, … Continue reading “How many people are in poverty in the UK?”
