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Course outline - Crime and Deviance (Criminal and deviant behaviour (Ways…
Course outline - Crime and Deviance
The social construction of crime and deviance
Concepts and explanations of crime and deviance
The work of merton on the causes of crime
Functionalist perspective
The work of Becker on the causes of crime
Internationalism perspective
Criminal and deviant behaviour
Ways that this behaviour have generated public debate
The work of Albert Cohen on delenquent subcultures
Factors affecting criminal behaviour
Describe the key ideas of carlen on women, crime and poverty
Social control
The work of Heidensohn on female conformity in male dominated societies
Formal and informal methods of social control
Sociological perspectives on social control
Functionalist
Feminist
Interactionalist
Marxist
Data on crime
The usefulness of the main sorces of data on crime
The collection of official data on crime patterns
The 'dark figure' - crime not recorded or reported