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		<title>Nutshell Studies: Felson and Cohen (1979)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 time-starved students who would nevertheless like to understand the basics of the theory. If you fancy looking at RAT a little more critically we’ve got that angle covered for you [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Nutshell Studies: Young (2007)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 of interesting ways: Firstly, the concept of subculture that features so prominently in the three-cornered approach to crime (the criminogenic triangle) is extended to include recent developments in online behaviours. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[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 contemporary sociological studies in a simple, straightforward, way that doesn’t involve a shed-load of frankly quite time-consuming reading”. Nutshell Studies give you a broad outline of a study – more [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Nutshell Studies: Alexander (2010)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 idea being, as with everything in this series, “to make it easier for students to get to grips with significant classic and contemporary sociological studies in a simple, straightforward, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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