Crime

The Crime section of the site features a range of films (in both DVD and On-Demand formats) to enhance teaching and learning.

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ShortCuts to Crime and Deviance Vol. 1

DVD: 7 short films covering key aspects of crime and deviance.

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Shortcuts to Crime and Deviance Vol. 2

DVD: Strain, Labelling and Environmental Criminology.

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The Cannibal on Bus 1170

A new look at how moral panics develop.

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Strain Theory

Applying Strain Theory to the relationship between crime and consumption.

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Labelling Theory

Understanding Interactionist approaches to crime and deviance.

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Space, Place and (Broken) Windows

An Introduction to Environmental Criminology (via Zimbardo and Broken Windows).

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Moral Panics

Exploring moral panics and deviancy amplification

through the work of Stan Cohen and Adrian Beck.

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The Functions of Crime

How Durkheim's ideas about crime have

influenced contemporary ideas about social control.

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Gender and Crime

Examining the relationship between crime,

masculinity and femininity.

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Situational Crime Prevention

Situational crime prevention illustrated by

the Stoke-on-Trent street-lighting study.

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Policing the Night

Phil Hadfield and Simon Winlow on social

control in the Night-time Economy.

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Hate Crime

A short introduction to the concept of hate crime:

definitions, measurement and perpetrators.

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Crimes of the Powerful

White-collar, Corporate and State Crime.

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Criminal Profiling

Does Criminal Profiling Work?

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