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Question 1

What is policing and crime

Answer 1

Different theorists view the police in different lights
Some see the police as apositiveform of social controland order and others arguing the police are atool of oppression.

Question 2

What is boundary maintenance?

Answer 2

This is when police use punishments to reaffirm “right” and “wrong” in society and create clear divide between criminals and civilians

Question 3

What is an example of social control

Define them as well

Answer 3

Formal social controlis enforced by specific agencies i.e. The police.Informal social controlis enforcedthrough agencies of socialisation i.e. The family. Crime is managed through both.

Question 4

Who argues the alternative explanations

Answer 4

Martza an Interactionist

Question 5

What does martza argue

Answer 5

That male delinquents are not in opposition to society’s normsand that they are committed to the same norms and values as othermembers of society to an extent and how for them it is possible to carry out illegal acts despite being committed to conventionalnorms and values as theyare able to ‘neutralise’ or convince themselves that the law does not apply tothem

Question 6

Whats ethnicity

Answer 6

When sociologists say ethnicity they usually mean a shared culture and social identity that connects a group of people.

Question 7

How many more times likely are black people compared to white going to be “stopped and searched”

Answer 7

Ministry of justice 2018 found it 9x more likley

Question 8

Stats for black people in society and prison

Answer 8

2% in society population

11% in prison population