Wednesday 30 January 2013

Work for Thursday 31st January


Complete the theories recap sheet  using prior knowledge and textbooks if needed.  Read  handout of the Napier Press textbook and the pages in Browne (p487-492) on crime prevention and make comprehensive notes.

Monday 28 January 2013

Essay due Friday 8th February



Item B
Some sociologists define globalisation as an increasing interconnectedness
in the world. Globalisation is multi-causal, and there are a number of key
processes and events that may have aided its development, including:
 technological innovation
 global crises
 the end of the Cold War
 the growth of transnational organisations
 the expansion of free trade.
Views on the impact of globalisation on crime vary. Globalisation has led to
changes in the opportunities to commit crime. This has meant increases in
some types of crime such as fraud, and new crimes such as cyber crime.

Using material from Item B and elsewhere, assess the view that the process of
globalisation has led to changes in both the amount of crime and the types of crime
committed. (21 marks)

Tuesday 22 January 2013

Case studies on Green crime

You will need these links to complete the case studies on Green crime.  There is too much to deal with in lesson alone so try to do a little further research in your own time.

Water pollution

Monday 14 January 2013

BBC News report

Please watch the link below when off the school site.  It is a BBC report on the rape victim who died in India  just after Christmas.  It also shows the public outcry and protest it generated.  This is a good example of how the media can over empathise a crime and distort the reality of crime


Thursday 10 January 2013

Cover work Friday 11th January

Massive apologies for missing your second lesson this week but on the bright side this will save you a homework task.

You need to write an answer to the exam question below which we planned before the holidays.  You should all have the question paper and mark scheme but if not they can be found at the links below.  Please complete within the lesson and leave on Mrs Underwood's desk.  For the three of you who submitted plans, I have looked at these and they are pretty good.  They are marked and attached to the pin board above my desk in H3.  Please could one of you collect these.

Work hard :)

Exam question

(b) Using material from Item A and elsewhere, assess the view that ethnic differences in
crime rates are the result of the ways in which the criminal justice system operates.
(21 marks)

Weblinks


You need to look under "key materials"  "past question papers" January 2010.

Tuesday 8 January 2013

Cover work instructions 9th January


Students to complete worksheet on global crimes by defining the crime and explaining how that crime is global ie, trafficking body parts is the taking of human body parts illegally from one human and selling them to another.  This can be global as often the body parts are taking from countries with high poverty levels and sold to clients in wealthier Western countries.

Students should then read the photocopied sheets and completed the questions on the worksheet.

Thursday 3 January 2013

Running List of everything you should have in your folder

Here is a list of everything you should have in your folders.  If you are missing anything then get caught up by either using someone else's notes or the Browne textbook.  This will be updated each week so you can keep checking on whether you are up to date and help you catch up if you are absent.  


  1. Definitions of crime and deviance 
  2. Venn Diagram showing criminal and deviant behaviour
  3. Notes of crime as a social construct
  4. Card sort on sociology, biological and psychological theories of crime
  5. Notes of Durkheim's positives of crime
  6. Notes on Merton's strain theory
  7. Modes of adaption match up sheet
  8. Notes on subcultural theories including Miller, Cohen, Cloward and Ohlin
  9. Notes of Marxist theory of crime
  10. Class notes Neo Marxist theory and Subculture Marxist theory including criticisms.
  11.  Essay  -  Assess the usefulness of Marxist theories in explaining crime and deviance in society today.
  12. Notes on Interactionalist theory
  13. Interactionalist fill in the blanks
  14. Feminist theories of crime and deviance note sheet including reasons for less female crime and evaluation of arguments 
  15. Control Theory note sheet
  16. Left Realism note sheet
  17. Chart of scenarios with which you had to explain how the event would have been viewed by a left realist.
  18. Right Realism note sheet
  19. Mindmap of all perspectives studied included link between similar theories and criticisms.
  20. Class notes on crime statistics
  21. Judgement graph on usefulness of different types of crime statistic
  22. Positivist and interprevist views of crime statistics
  23. Facts on age and crime statistics sheet
  24. Sociological crime report on 17 year Billy (completed during work on age and crime)
  25.  Notes of Matza's techniques of neutralisation
  26. Mindmap on why young people stop committing crime as they get older
  27. Fact sheet on ethnicity and crime
  28. Mindmap on explanations of black crime
  29. Personal research on the Stephen Lawrence case and institutional racism.
  30. Fact sheet on gender and crime
  31. Own notes or handout from other students on Chivalry Thesis, assertion of masculinity, sex role, gender socialization, rational choice, control theory and police stereotypes with relation to gender and crime.
  32. Own research and notes on locality and crime (including rural and urban crime)
  33. Worksheet "Crimes of the suites"
  34. Working class and lower working class crime sheet
  35. Exam guidance notes from chief examiner 
  36. Plan for exam question "assess the view that differences in ethnic crime rates are the result of the way in which the criminal justice system operates" and mark scheme for this question.
  37. Homework notes on corporate crime from Browne textbook
  38. Class notes of global crime.
  39. Personal research and handouts from other students on an example of global crime.
  40. Worksheet with examples of global crimes and explanations of how they are global.
  41. Questions on globalisation of crime with photocopied sheet
  42. Essay on ethnicity and crime
  43. Notes from class on media agenda setting and News Values.  Including annotate news story showing news values.  
  44. Notes on Green crime from class including the primary and secondary crime sheet.
  45. Three case studies on Green crime using note recording sheet and web links on the blog. (You need to cover two of these case studies)
  46. Notes on State crimes including research into Pol Pott's Cambodia, Human rights violations and techniques of neutralisation.
  47. Globalisation essay question 21 marks 
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