Tag: crime
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Legal Age for Marriage Raised to 18
The legal age of marriage in the UK rose from 16 to 18 years of on Monday 27th February 2023. The reason behind this was to protect vulnerable teenagers aged 16 to 17 being manipulated or coerced into marriage against their will. There have been thousands of cases of forced marriage in recent years where…
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Zahawi’s Tax ‘Carelessness’
Nadhim Zahawi is the Conservative Party Chairman and previous Chancellor of the Exchequer who this month paid around £5 million in tax, which included a 30% penalty from the HMRC for underpayment of previous taxes. To understand why Zahawi received this tax penalty we need to go back to the year 2000 when Zahawi co-founded…
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The Arrest of Andrew Tate
Andrew Tate is the poster boy for toxic masculinity – why did he get so popular in 2022 and why was he arrested?
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Just Stop Oil – A Sociological Analysis
Just stop oil are challenging people to rethink what their values are in global context, but are coming up against governmental and corporate power structures which are pro fossil fuel.
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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.
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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…
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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’…
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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…
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Facebook: putting profit over safety
According to ex Facebook employee Frances Haugen Facebook’s puts its profits over protecting users from harm – over the last several years it has consciously chosen to recommend posts which spread online hate and encourage addictive behaviour rather than protect users. Haugen has gone on record stating that Facebook’s own research shows that many children…
