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EVALUATION - SOCIOLOGICAL - Coggle Diagram
EVALUATION - SOCIOLOGICAL
Social structure theory/Marxism
STRENGTHS
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Highlights the impact of selective law enforcement and how white - collar crime is under - policed
Does provide an explanation for crime that covers all social classes and a variety of offences
WEAKNESSES
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Largely ignores other non - classes inequalities such as gender or ethinicity
There are many prosecutions for white - collar or corporate crime such as
Bernie Madoff
Interactionism/labelling theory
STRENGTHS
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Highlights weaknesses in official statistics, which allows bias in law enforcement
Shows how law is often enforced in a discriminatory way. It highlights the consequence of labelling
WEAKNESSES
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Ignores the victim of crime and focuses on the 'criminal'. There is a potential to romanticise crime
Fails to explain why deviant behaviour happens in the
first place
. There is no acceptance that some people may choose deviance
Realism - right
STRENGTHS
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Has helped produce and shape the government's research into crime. For example, it has stimulated a range of victim surveys and practical measures to combat crime
Offers a more practical approach to tackling crime than its mainly theoretical predecessors such as
Marxism
or
labelling
WEAKNESSES
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It ignores wider structural causes of crime such as
poverty
Too readily accepts crime statistics. For example, it fails to explain
white - collar crime
. The focus is on young males and street crime
Realism - left
STRENGTHS
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Recognises multiple causes of crime
It avoids the worst excesses for both
right wing
and
left wing
approaches by neither glorifying nor attacking the police
WEAKNESSES
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Does not explain why everyone in
relative deprivation
fails to turn to crime
Fails to explain
white - collar
or
corporate crime