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Subject
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Outline
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Homework/ Reading
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1
23rd
Feb
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Intro to deviance
and crime
Lessons one
and two
Physiological and psychological theories
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Deviance is a relative concept
Outline situations
societal and
search for causes in the
individual
What is Crime?
What stops crime happening?
What do stereotypical
criminals look like?
Family &
psychology
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S.I.F 455-458 & 466-467
HARA
H/work: Research madness:
labelling and defining. Look at Goffman’s asylums, Foucault, de Beauvoir
(women and madness). Feedback in mini presentation for 1/3/04
C3.2, handout C3.3
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2
1st March
3rd March Visit St James Hospital
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Includes
Lesson three (above)
Interactionists perspectives
Becker, Lement, Goffman
Jock Young
Cohen
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Deviance as a social
construct.
Labelling
Primary and secondary deviance
(Lement)
Stigma
Deviant career
Amplification (Cohen)
Moral panics
Media
Knowledge:
labelling
theory: interactionism,
method:
Interpretivism
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S.I.F 475-480
Sociological review Feb 2001 p
8-11 & p32-33
www.crimetheory.com
www.atss.org.uk
Look at ‘The social
Construction of sex offenders’ by Grover and Soothill Soc Review Vol4. no.3
Feb 1995
recommend they watch a section
from Quadrophenia
Set homework: “Rightwing
explanations of crime blame the individual whereas leftwing explanations
blame society” Explain and discuss this statement 40 marks
Give prompt list of authors
and studies C3.3
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3
8th March
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Functionalist approaches
Durkheim
Cohen
Merton – strain theory
Milller (subculture)
(Cloward and Ohlin subculture)
Ecology of deviance –
transience of urban population and physical decay
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Social cohesion
Social change
Boundaries of permitted action
Dysfunctions
Anomie
Transition and disorganisation
theory
suicide
social class
positivism
Interpretivism
Willis education
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S.I.F 468-71 &488,
670-1
ILT
www.crimetheory.com
www.atss.org.uk
www.academicinfo.net
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4
15th
March
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Suicide
Durkheim
Douglas
Atkinson
Taylor
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What is it, definitions and
explanations of Durkheim’s study
Different types of suicide
Criticisms: Douglas,
jean Baechler (Interactionists study)
Phenomenologists: Taylor and
Parasucide
Methodological problems
Suicide
Functionalism
Interactionism
Triangulation
Positivism,
Interpretivism
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“ SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF
SUICIDE HAVE INFLENCED BOTH THE METHODS USED TO STUDY DEVIANCE AND THE
EXPLANATIONS OF DEVIANCE” EXPLAIN AND DISCUSSS THIS STATEMENT
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5
22nd
March
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Marxism
Radical criminology
New Criminology
Taylor, Walton & Young
Deviance
Reflects power & inequalities
Left realism
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Who makes and breaks the law?
Crimes of the powerful, capitalism & crime, mugging
Power
Conflict
Ideology
Social class
Inequality
Marxism
Neo-Marxism
Positivism
Interpretivism
Statistics
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S.I.F 480-483
Hara p391-397
New Left Realism
S.I.F 480-483
“Women are often seen as the only victims of crime.
However, this is too simplistic a view of the relationship between
criminality and gender.” Evaluate this view with reference to the alleged
under-representation of women in crime statistics. 40 marks
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6
29th
March
25th
talk by Forensic
Psychologist
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2 sessions
Subcultural
explanations: idea that deviance reflects the opportunity structure of
society
2 SESSIONS ONE THIS WEEK ONE AFTER EASTER
official
statistics:
limitations:
what they do not reveal
class, gender, ethnicity
white collar crime
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Cohen status frustration
Cloward and Cohen-
Miller – working class sub culture
Matza- delinquency & drift
CULTURE
IDENTITY
Class
Interpretivism
Measuring crime: how much crime is
recorded?
Unrecorded crime-dark figure of crime
What sorts of crime are recorded?
How much recorded crime is ‘cleared up’?
Information about sex, age, ethnicity, employment,
employment status, region and social background of convicted criminals
Victim studies
Self reporting
Media
Methods
Social control
Public policy
Positivism
Statistics
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S.I.F 471 – 474
S.I.F 461-466
SOCIAL TRENDS
“ASSESS THE USEFULNESS OF OFFICAL
STATISTIC TO A SOCIOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF CRIME” 40 MARKS 800 WORDS
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5th
April
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12th
April
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Easter
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7
19th
April
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Right Realism
The new right
Murray’
Wilson
two sessions one this week one next week
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Cause of criminality 3 areas , family, culture, welfarism
Opportunity and choice
Control theory (Hirsch)
Poverty
Social class
Deprecation
Power
Conflict,
ideology
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Hara p 399-401, 323-326
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8
26th
April
Possible
Talk by police on local criminality
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3
sessions
Gender
2 female crime
1 male crime
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Official statistics
The causes of female crime & deviance
Female crime and women’s lib
Women, crime and poverty
Female conformity
Male crime
Feminism
Statistics
Gender
Power
Social class
Ideology
Conflict
Deprivation
Biology
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‘masculinity and crime’ by M Leonard in soc review Sept
1995 p 2-7
hara p 408-418
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9
3rd
May
3rd
bank holiday
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Two sessions
Ethnicity
Hall et al ‘policing the crises’
Gilroy ‘the empire
strikes back’
Lea and Young (New Left realism)
Stephen Lawrence
One Session
Criminal Justice
Politics of justice
To what extent can the criminal justice system be said to
be working?
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Official statistics
Capitalism & racism
Underclass
Myth of the black community
Marxist theory
Social class
Power
Neo-Marxism
New left realism
Interpretivism
Statistics
Conflict
Role of the police
effectiveness of prisons
surveillance
Social control
Power
Conflict
Public policy
Right realism
Left realism
Marxism
Neo-Marxism
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S.I.F p486, 103-1-6
www.law.ac.uk/crim/CRIMLINK
Does Prison work? Roger Matthews Soc Review vol6, no3, feb
1997
What are the futures of crime control by Gordon Hughes , Soc
Review Vol9, no.3, Feb 200
Smile! You’re on CTV by Marsha Jones Soc Review vol9, no1
Sept 1999
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11
10th
April
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Revision
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Religion
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12
12th
April
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Revision
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Religion
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13
19th
April
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Revision
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Theories of Deviance
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14
26th
April
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Revision
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Criminal Statistics
The Sociology of Suicide
Criminal Justice
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