Nutshell Studies: Felson and Cohen (1979)
November 10, 2025
Routine Activities Theory has arguably been one of the most influential crime theories of recent times and this Nutshell Study provides a simple overview for
Routine Activities Theory has arguably been one of the most influential crime theories of recent times and this Nutshell Study provides a simple overview for
Students (and teachers) of Left Realism should find the latest nutshell study particularly useful for the way it extends Young’s Realist arguments in a couple
The third Nutshell Study is Merton’s Strain Theory (1938 ), designed “to make it easier for students to get to grips with significant classic and
The second Nutshell Study does a quick’n’dirty hack-job on Michelle Alexander’s 2010 study “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” –
The latest edition of Crime in England and Wales, hot off the National Statistics press, has arrived with a dull thud on our doorstep and
The next set in the Collections series covers both Sociology and Psychology and covers a mix of PowerPoint Presentations, some of which I’ve lifted from
The New Penology refers to changes in the roles played by control agencies (both formal, such as the police and informal, such as schools) in
The next Collection in a series that includes Learning Mats, Revision Resources, Simulations and the ever-popular Introductory Sociology, brings together all the Flipbook posts dotted
I thought that for the 1,000th SCTV blog post I’d make an effort to do something a bit different. But then I came to my
Three short(ish) films dredged-up from The Archive (I’m not exactly sure which Archive but it probably sounds more-authentic than “found on an old neglected hard
A couple of years ago – November 2022 to be precise – we launched the Psychology Film Club as a way of offering our complete
The fact students come to Sociology with a certain level of prior knowledge about the areas they’re studying – from families through education to crime
Professors Wilkinson and Pickett’s “The Spirit Level”, originally published in 2009, is arguably one of the most important books on social inequality published in recent
If you’re interested in free textbooks – of either the Sociology or Psychology variety – you may well have come across the Openstax Introduction to
Most a-level teachers and students will probably be most familiar with Per-Olof Wikstrom’s work on the Peterborough Adolescent Development Study (PADS), a longitudinal study of