A recent article in The Week (5th September 2025) “AI Chatbots: Are They Dangerous Friends?”, explores the growing phenomenon of […]
Messerschmidt (1993) notes that males commit most crimes and therefore any study of crime must include a study of masculine
The Chivalry Thesis states that women are let of relatively lightly by predominately male police and judges. It is one
Emerging in the late 1960s and 70s, Radical Criminology, aka New Criminology combined Marxist and Interactionist approaches, emphasizing capitalism’s role in producing crime, and the subsequent societal reactions. It called for understanding crime through several factors such as wealth distribution and societal response to deviance. Critics argue it offers no practical solution to crime and romanticizes criminals, while ignoring crime victimization of women.
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.
Students of A-level sociology are required to study Victimology as part of the Crime and Deviance compulsory module, which means
Cybercrime is one of the most harmful types in terms its economic costs to individuals and businesses. This reason alone
Fraud and computer misuse now account for half of all crimes in England and Wales, but 80% of victims no NOTHING about the criminals who acted against them!
Three examples of state crimes since 2020 include Russia targeting civilians during the Ukraine invasion, China’s genocide against the Uyghur’s and the Taliban’s denial of women’s rights.
Deviance is norm-breaking behaviour. Sociologists argue that deviance is context dependent – what is deviant depends on the situation you are in, such as the country and the historical period.