Crime Displacement PowerPoint
Over the past 50 years it’s probably fair to say that a great deal of the sociology of crime and deviance in both America and, to a lesser extent, the UK, has been orientated towards situational crime prevention techniques and strategies in terms of both practical strategies and theoretical explanations (such as Routine Activities Theory). […]
Restorative Justice: An Educational Dimension
You may – or as is probably more likely, may not – recall a post a while back that outlined some ideas on Braithwaite and Restorative Justice as they relate to crime and criminal behaviour – a fact I mention only because I came across an interesting short video on how a school in Colorado […]
Crime and Deviance: Non-Sociological vs Labelling Approaches
I came across this “Approaches to Crime and Deviance” PowerPoint the other day while searching through an old hard drive (the metadata says I created it in 2003 and although that sounds about right in terms of the look-and-feel of the Presentation it may actually have been created a little later, not that this makes […]
SociologySaviour Blog
I was looking for pictures of Arron Cicoural for a new film we’re editing on Labelling Theory when I stumbled across the rather interesting SociologySaviour Blog, that unfortunately now looks as though it hasn’t been updated since mid-2016. This is something of a shame because the material it contains seems well-written and useful – although […]
More Crime and Deviance Learning Tables
A few days ago I did a post on Learning Tables that noted, in passing, that although the numbering system used suggested at least 14 Tables had been created for crime and deviance, I’d only managed to find 10. After a bit of detective work (which sounds a bit mysterious and a touch glamourous until […]
Sociological Santa
For all those teaching and learning crime and deviance, a Sociological Santa joke I found on Twitter… And as an added bonus, another Foucault “joke”…
Learning Tables: Crime and Deviance
We’ve just started filming for a new series of crime and deviance films (the long-awaited follow-up volume to our original Shortcuts to Crime and Deviance films – a welcome change to be creating sociology films after 3 years spent focusing on psychology films – and in the process of searching for Robert Agnew pics (one […]
Popular Panics and the New Right
Following the police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham, widespread rioting broke out during August 2011 in London and many other English cities. If you don’t remember or aren’t familiar with the civil unrest, the BBC has a handy timeline of events. I recently came across an Economist article, written at the time and addressing […]
14 | Youth: Part 3
One area of social life in which the relationship between youth and specific types of behaviour is particularly clear is that of offending behaviour. Young people – principally young, working class, men – are hugely over-represented in the crime statistics and since this series of chapters is linked by ideas about Youth Culture and Subculture […]
Crime and Criminology: Offender Profiling
The final WJEC Criminology PowerPoint provides an overview of offender profiling covering things like: • Evidence and the crime scene • British and American approaches to profiling • Examples of profiling successes and failures • A Scenario that requires students to both apply any psychological theory with which they are familiar to the crime depicted […]
Measuring Crime
This large (30-odd slide) PowerPoint Presentation was (I’m guessing) put together by Dave Bown as part of the WJEC textbook project (I think he wrote / co-wrote the online A2 eBook). It’s an interesting and wide-ranging resource that introduces a number of different topics related to the practice and problem of measuring crime. These include: […]
Crime and Criminology PowerPoint 4
The fourth WJEC Criminology PowerPoint offering provides an overview of feminist approaches to crime and criminality and, as you might expect, follows the format of the previous Presentations in this series: • brief Introductory and summary Notes • discussion questions • short activities • suggestions for further personal / independent research • a “scenario” exercise […]
Crime and Criminology PowerPoint 3
The third WJEC Criminology offering – again I’m thinking it’s by Janis Griffiths – focuses on Sociological theories of criminality and serves as a brief introduction to: • Marxism, • Functionalism, • Interactionism and • Realism. The main content here is basically a one-screen summary of key points so it’s probably best seen as a […]
Crime and Criminology PowerPoint 2
The second WJEC Criminology offering – I’m taking an educated guess that it’s by Janis Griffiths – focuses on Individualistic theories of criminality and, in particular, the assumption that criminal behaviour is related to particular types of criminal personality. This is illustrated by short Notes on three different theories and their major proponents: 1. Eysenck […]
Crime and Criminology PowerPoint 1
It’s probably fair to say that over the years attempts by different UK Exam Boards to provide teaching and learning materials for Sociology have, in the main, been somewhat half-hearted. The general position seems to be that while this new Internet-thingy confers a range of opportunities to provide teachers with information and guidance, providing teaching […]