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, Marxism
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Evaluating Marxist Theories of Crime Part 2 – Kweku Adoboli
In 2013 Kweku Adeboli was jailed for 7 years for committing the biggest White Collar fraud in UK history. This
Crime and Deviance
Evaluating the Marxist Perspective on Crime (part 1)
To be updated soon….. All of the material below takes you to evidence that broadly supports two ideas held by
Crime and Deviance
Marxist Theories of Crime – A Summary
Covering crimogenic capitalism, selective law enforcement and the ideological functions of crime control
Crime and Deviance
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
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Consensus Theories of Crime -Functionalist and Strain Theories: Summary Version
Introduction/ The basics Durkheim’s Functionalist Theory Hirschi’s Social Control/ Bonds of Attachment Theory Merton’s Strain Theory Institutional Anomie Theory (IAT)
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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
The Underclass Theory of Crime
An American Sociologist Charles Murray (1989) first coined the term ‘the underclass’ to refer to that group of people in
Crime and Deviance
Official Crime Statistics for England and Wales
The two main sources of official statistics on Crime in the UK (or rather England and Wales!) are: NB –
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Sociological Perspectives on Crime and Deviance
A brief overview of some sociological perspectives on crime and deviance – from Functionalism through to Right Realism. Theory Summary