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  • Evaluate the Contribution of Consensus Theory to Our Understanding of Crime and Deviance (30)

    An essay plan on Consensus Theory for the A Level Sociology Crime and Deviance Module.  For more examples of short answer, 10 mark and essay questions, please see my main page on ‘Exams, essays and short answer questions‘. For an overview of consensus theories of crime and deviance please see these two posts: (1) Consensus…

  • Subcultural Theories of Crime – A Summary

    Introduction/ The basics Subcultural Theory explains deviance in terms of a deviant group, split apart from the rest of the society which encourages deviance Historical Period: The 1940s- 60S, Underclass Theory – 1980s Albert Cohen: Status Frustration working class boys try to gain status within school and fail, thus suffer status frustration Some such boys…

  • Consensus Theories of Crime: An Introduction

    Consensus theories generally see crime as unusual, dysfunctional and believe something has ‘gone wrong’ for the people who commit crime. Consensus theories include functionalism, strain theory and subcultural theory. Consensus Theory: the Basics According to consensus theories, for the most part society works because most people are successfully socialised into shared values through the family…