Cultural Criminology: Consumerism, Edgework and Crime
Cultural criminology seeks to understand how consumer culture has changed the motives and nature of crime in contemporary society. Cultural […]
Crime and Deviance
crime
Crime and Deviance
Postmodern Criminology: Post and Late Modern Theories of Crime
Postmodern and late modern criminologists argue that crime has changed since the 1970s, and that the older theories no longer
Crime and Deviance, Postmodernism and Late Modernsim
Jock Young: Social Exclusion, the Bulimic Society and Crime
Jock Young (1999) argues that we live in a society that culturally includes everyone and economically excludes a great many
Sociology on TV
Sociology on TV August – September 2016
There’s a couple of really useful documentaries relevant to the crime and deviance module which have been on recently, which
Crime and Deviance, Social Policies
Environmental Crime Prevention Strategies
Environmental crime prevention means using formal and informal social control to clamp down on anti-social behaviour and stop a neighbourhood
Crime and Deviance, Social Action Theory (Interpretivism and Interactionism)
Labelling Theory of Crime and Deviance
Labelling theory argues that criminal and deviant acts are a result of labelling by authorities – and the powerless are more likely to be negatively labelled.
Crime and Deviance, Marxism
Tombs and Whyte: The Cost of Health and Safety Infringements
Marxist Criminologists argue that the costs of elite crime are greater than the costs of street-crime, yet the elite are
Crime and Deviance
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.
Crime and Deviance, right and left realism
Charles Murray’s Underclass Theory of Crime
Charles Murray argued that a distinct underclass had formed in Britain by the late 1980s — long-term workless, welfare-dependent, and
Crime and Deviance
Official Crime Statistics for England and Wales
When people talk about official crime statistics for the UK, they usually mean the figures for England and Wales. Scotland