GCSE Sociology (Eduqas / WJEC) - Crime and Deviance: Gender and Crime [PowerPoint Presentation]

A 10 slide PowerPoint presentation (and ‘fill in the blanks’ handout) that covers the key issues around the relationship between gender and crime. The resource is designed to be delivered to students in a ‘lead from the front’ lesson / revision session format and should take approx. 100 mins to deliver. It includes:

• A starter task
• Key statistics on gender and crime, e.g. arrest rates, prosecution ration, prison populations (from 2017)
• Reasons why women commit less crime than men (gender socialisation, social control, patriarchy, employment patterns) including references to key feminists - Heidensohn, McRobbie, and Oakley
• Class discussion around the differential treatment of women and men by agents of social control
• An explanation of Pollak’s Chivalry thesis with a link to a 5 min YouTube clip that covers the issue
• Links between class, poverty and gender
• An explanation of Carlen’s work on women, crime and poverty
• How gender and a focus on female crime can be used as a criticism to other theoretical views on crime. Includes a link to a 13 min YouTube clip on girl gangs that can be used to ‘visualise’ some of the criticisms outlined
• An homework task of an 8 mark exam question (based on the content covered) with WJEC / Eduqas guidance on how to answer it (in a hidden slide)
• A lesson closing game of sociological ‘Articulate!’ based on key terms used in the lesson
• Animated to ‘build’ information to students gradually
• Brief instructions for the teacher and timing guidance are included in the notes to the document.

The resource is designed to be delivered to students studying the new WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Sociology specification. The resource assumes students have already covered much of the Crime and Deviance module, but can easily be used or adapted for those with no prior knowledge.