Crime and Social Disadvantage: The Evidence
February 22, 2024
One of the more-interesting things about the use of Situational Action Theory (SAT) to explore the relationship between crime and social disadvantage is that it
One of the more-interesting things about the use of Situational Action Theory (SAT) to explore the relationship between crime and social disadvantage is that it
While the relationship between social disadvantage and crime has long been known, an important question that’s often ignored is why only a relatively small proportion
This section of Crime Notes focuses on a number of different aspects of victimisation with the initial emphasis on the concept of victimology, the social
Short set of Notes on a kind of complementary, albeit less revolutionary, approach to understanding crime and deviance that you can either lump-in with Critical
A broad overview of a range of different Marxist interpretations of crime and deviance in words and pictures Or, if you want to be picky,
A short overview of Feminist perspectives on crime and deviance combining a bit of text with quite a lot of video. Feminist approaches are many
A quick’n’dirty overview of the Interactionist perspective on crime and deviance. Two ideas closely associated with Interactionist approaches are those of deviance as both relative
In the late 1960s and early 1970s there was a general political perception that the ‘fight against crime’ was not only being lost, but that
A short set of Notes covering a range of Functionalist explanations for crime and deviance, largely based around the concepts of anomie (both the Durkheimian
A short set of Notes looking at crime trends and patterns in England and Wales over the past 50-odd years. While students don’t require a
Some Notes that have been hanging around on my hard drive doing nothing useful that I’ve finally got around to posting. There are plenty more
This new (2023) set of Sociology A-level Knowledge Organisers covers Media, Education, Crime, Health, World Sociology and Religion.
The latest addition to the burgeoning Sociological Detectives™ Universe is a role-playing simulation of the Research Process – and Popper’s Hypothetico-Deductive Model of Scientific Research
A range of Sociology Flipbooks covering Theory, Methods, Education, Deviance, Media and Revision.
Plus 3 bonus issues of Sociology Shortcuts Magazine.
Our latest short film looks at the mythologies around the issue of mass killers.