CIE Crime and Deviance (AL/GCSE)

This comprehensive revision guide covers all of the specification points, with key terms, case study examples and evaluative arguments.
Examples are shown clearly through Past Paper answer keys.
Although directed for the CIE syllabus, this is applicable to the AQA, OCR and WJEC specifications.
Relevant for IGCSE, GCSE, AS and A2.
Content included:
The difference between ‘crime’ and ‘deviance’; relativity
Formal and informal social control
Measurements of crime and their strengths and limitations
Patterns and explanations of crime by age, class gender and ethnicity
Victims of crime
Policing and law enforcement, including targeting, surveillance and crime prevention
Crime related to new technology
Dealing with crime: community sentencing, punishment, prison, rehabilitation
Sociological explanations of deviant and criminal behaviour: Labelling theory, Marxist theory, Functionalist theory, socialisation (e.g. family and peer groups), lack of opportunity, relative deprivation, masculinity, status frustration
Role of law enforcement agencies and the media in defining crime and deviance, stereotyping, labelling and deviancy amplification
The development of sub-cultures and links to crime and deviance (with particular reference to youth)