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newburn (functionalist)

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No act itself is criminal. It is a label attached to certain forms of behaviour prohibited by the state.

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durkheim (functionalist)

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Traditional societies as underpinned by mechanical solidarity. He believes that crime exists in all societies and that it is inevitable and necessary to maintain social solidarity

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davis (functionalist)

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Crime is positive because it can act as a safety valve to prevent more severe crimes from happening e.g. prostitution

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merton (neo-functionalist)

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The strain theory led to the poor experiencing a state of anomie - a form of moral frustration and disenchantment. Identified 5 types of behaviour; conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism and rebellion.

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gordon (marxist)

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The organisation of capitalism is criminogenic. Capitalism causes crime in all social classes. Rich want to be richer, poor get poorer. Ruling class dehumanise criminals for their actions and use the legal system to neutralise opposition to their ideology

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althusser (marxist)

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Calls the law an ideological state apparatus because it functions to hide the true extent of class inequality.

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pearce (marxist)

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Even laws that look like they help the working class, actually just benefit the working class. E.g. health legislation just provides healthy workers for the upper classes

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chambliss (marxist)

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The law mainly protects capitalist interests, particularly wealth, property and profit. Argued that most laws are property laws and are primarily focused on protecting the middle classes. More likely to be arrested for benefit cheating than import tax evasion

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taylor (neo-marxist)

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Capitalist society is based on exploitation and class conflict and is characterised by extreme inequalities of wealth and power. They argue that the state makes and enforces laws in the interests of the capitalist class and criminalises members of the working class. Multiple factors relating to labelling by the capitalist class.

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hall (neo-marxist)

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Moral panics about crime were used to reassert the dominance of ruling-class hegemony during the 1970s, when capitalism was undergoing a crisis. Moral panic around black muggers as a minor issue that was used to distract from the main class based issues that were in society at the time.

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gilroy (neo-marxist)

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Argues that crimes committed by black individuals is caused by a mix of capitalist class exploitation and racism. They argue that this is a rational response to the exploitation they experience.

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s cohen (interactionist)

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Talks about how these negatively labelled crimes are amplified in the media through deviance amplification spiral and can then lead to the creation of moral panics.

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cicourel (interactionist)

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Talks about how police internalise this negative label of crimes and therefore are more likely to charge a working class delinquent as it fits in their typical view.

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shaw and mackay (environmentalists)

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Burgess model - studied chicago in 1930s. They found that most crime happened in the inner city and fewer crimes happened the more you moved outwards.

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sutherland (environmentalist)

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Differential association - when people commit crimes if they hang around with other people that commit crimes by association. E.g. the mafia - people are born into it and adopt criminal actions by association.

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baldwins and bottoms (environmentalists)

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‘Tipping point’ - When the area has enough criminal individuals that it leads to the area becoming tipped

Criminals move into the area, non-criminals move out, more criminals move in

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merton (class and crime)

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A cohen (class and crime)

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w/c boys that are unable to achieve status in education (status frustration). Look to obtain status by forming subcultural groups and construct an alternate status hierarchy. Involves subverting the norms and values of society to give status to criminal and deviant activities

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miller (class and crime)

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Argues that w/c juvenile delinquency is not the result of strain. Instead w/c youth are merely acting out and exaggerating the mainstream values of w/c culture such as heightened masculinity.

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cloward and ohlin (class and crime)

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If young working class people are denied legitimate opportunities such as jobs, they may turn to an illegitimate opportunity structure (IOS). Three types of subculture:

1 - Criminal - in some parts of the world, young people may be recruited into organised types of criminal subcultures or networks.
2 - Conflict - some inner-city areas may be dominated by territorial street gangs
3 - Retreatist - those who fail to gain access to either the criminal or conflict subcultures may form retreatist subcultures, in which the major activities are drug use.

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jock young (class and crime)

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‘Bulimic society’ - now we are exposed to a large variety of consumer products which the working class cannot afford - so often turn to crime to get these material items

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murray (class and crime)

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States that in lone parent families children lack a stable father figure in their lives and are often influenced by negative role models - older boys involved in gangs, drug-dealing and so on.

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ron clarke (class and crime)

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Rational Choice;
- criminals have free will and choose to commit crime
- the choice to commit crime is based on a rational weighing up of the benefits of crime against the potential risks

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becker (class and crime)

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Deviance is a social construction.

In his study about outsiders he found that there is no value consensus on normality or deviance and they mean different things to different groups.

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p cohen (class and crime)

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Talks about the two different types of subculture in East London, the Mods and the Skinheads.

The middle-class Mods were viewed as a positive subculture, whereas the working class Skinheads were viewed negatively due to using the subculture as a way of coping with their poor circumstances.

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lea and young (class and crime)

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Lea and Young studied Rastafarianism and found that they turned to street crime due to their difficult economic situation.

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heidensohn (gender and crime)

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Women are too controlled to commit crime
Control theory
- Controlled in home, work, and public sphere
- Women less likely to commit white collar crimes as face discrimination in workplace
Young females face greater social stigma and negative labelling if they are involved with deviant activities - acts as deterrent

Women prosecuted more harshly (double deviance)
Prosecuted for breaking the law and breaking the stereotype of femininity/ social norms and values

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adler (gender and crime)

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Women now have more rights than ever, so they now are committing more crimes. E.g. since the equal pay act, female crime has increased.

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pollak (gender and crime)

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Women do commit crime but are often treated more leniently by the courts and police.
(Chivalry Thesis)

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messerschmitt (gender and crime)

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Argues that boys in the UK are socialised into a powerful hegemonic masculine value system that stresses difference from femininity and the importance of being a ‘real man’.
Boys feel as though they need to exercise power over women which may create the potential for criminal behaviour.

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parsons (gender and crime)

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Sex-role theory - men are more likely to commit crime as they believe they should be the breadwinners providing for their family.

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lyng (gender and crime)

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Argues that people commit crime for the thrill

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williams and clark (ethnicity and crime)

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Institutional racism leads to BAME individuals to be seen as gang members

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patel and tryer (ethnicity and crime)

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Islamic individuals are sometimes seen as terrorists.

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philips and webster (ethnicity and crime)

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Travellers feel harshly treated by the police.

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macpherson report (ethnicity and crime)

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Report into death of Stephen Lawrence
Concluded that the Met Police were guilty of ‘institutional racism’ in its failure to tackle such discrimination

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hobbs and dunningham (globalisation and crime)

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Found that global criminal networks often serve and feed off established criminals networks in Western countries.

Argue that crime is increasingly ‘glocal’ in character - it is locally based but has global connections.

For example, the illegal drugs trade.

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glenny (globalisation and crime)

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McMafia - organised global crimes networks operate in the same way as legitimate global businesses.
For example, the global drug economy has zones of production, distribution and consumption.

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taylor (globalisation and crime)

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Globalisation - has allowed capitalist class to exploit criminal opportunities available due to globalisation. E.g. bhopal and hamilton.

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beck (globalisation and crime)

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Argues that the risks associated with global crime are the result of new technologies developed by industrial capitalism. He argues that the development of cyber and digital technology such as the internet has produced a new set of risks.

Points out that many of the threats to our ecosystem are manufactured risks and are the result of the massive demand for consumer goods and the technology that underpins it.
Human demands for manufactured goods potentially has grave effects for both humanity and the environment. (e.g. impact on greenhouse gas emissions).

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schlesinger and tumbler (globalisation and crime)

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Murder was more popular in the media in the 1960s, but since the abolition of the death penalty, crimes such as child abuse and drugs have become more popular.

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bandura (globalisation and crime)

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How the media can cause people to be violent by copying what they see on television.

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s cohen (globalisation and crime)

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Focuses on the media’s representation of the Mods and Rockers in the 1960s.

Argued that the media generated a moral panic about the behaviour of these groups in 1964 through exaggerated reports of minor vandalism and low-level violence.
This led to widespread public fear and a police crackdown. The distorted reporting encouraged youths to identify with one of the two groups, which had not previously seen each other as rivals.

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hall (globalisation and crime)

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Sees moral panics as deliberately engineered by the ruling class to divide and rule the working class and to distract people from a ‘crisis of capitalism’.

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mcrobbie (globalisation and crime)

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Argues that the concept of moral panic is outdated because of the existence of social media platforms such as facebook and twitter.

Audiences are now exposed to more interpretations about potential social problems and so are less likely to respond with panic or anxiety. Moral panics are less likely to occur today because of the sheer diversity of media outlets.

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white (globalisation and crime)

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He argues that green crime should be defined as any deliberate harm to the natural environment and the creatures that live within it, even if no law is broken.
Two perspectives on crime:
- Anthropocentric - humans have the right to dominate nature to their own ends.
- Ecocentric - humans and their environment are interdependent.

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mclaughlin (globalisation and crime)

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Four major types of state crimes:
1 - Crimes committed by state security and police forces (War crimes)
2 - Political crimes - censorship of the media
3 - Economic crimes - theft of public funds, corruption and bribery
4 - Social and cultural crimes - failing to protect human rights

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milgram (globalisation and crime)

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In his study he found that 65% of the participants were willing to administer the highest amount of voltage - can be criticised as occurring in a lab environment.

In Nazi Germany, the Germans cooperated with the Nazi’s to harm/kill the Jews as they didn’t have to take responsibility. Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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christie (social control and crime)

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Victims are socially constructed. The media and official statistics have different statistics and imagery of what a victim is like. Links to positivist and critical victimologists.

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hans von hentig (social control and crime)

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Claimed that most victims of violence belong to ‘vulnerable’ status groups such as females and the elderly. He also implied that their lack of status invited the crime against them.

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tombs and white (social control and crime)

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The victims of corporate, white-collar, state or green crimes are unlikely to appear in positivist victim surveys because questions are not included which cover these types of offences.
Safety crimes are often explained by blaming “accident prone” workers.

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durkheim (social control and crime)

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Punishments create social solidarity by punishing the offender and bringing people together. Benefits society through deterrence.

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althusser (social control and crime)

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Punishments are a form of repressive state apparatus and punishments are used to control the proletariat.

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foucault (social control and crime)

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Surveillance is a form of ‘disciplinary power’ which is more effective than brute force as citizens are more likely to conform if they were being watched.
(Panopticon society)

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s cohen (social control and crime)

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Stages of denial - it didn’t happen, it’s not how it looks and it had to be this way.

Four key changes have occurred:
1 - The locus of social control moved from informal social institutions to the state
2 - Deviants are classified and differentiated in various categories.
3 - Different types of custodial institution have emerged
4 - Policy now focused on changing the hearts and minds of offenders rather than inflicting pain and suffering.

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wilson and kelling (social control and crime)

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‘Broken window theory’ - focus on the decline of community in inner-city areas. Believe that if a community allows its physical environment to decline, such as not fixing broken windows, it signals that low level deviance is tolerated.

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crime

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any form of action that results in breaking a written or formal rule in society.

e.g. bank robbery or murder

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deviance

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behaviour that does not conform to the dominant norms of a specific society.

e.g. not wearing a tie in school

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5 functions of crime

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  • remarking social boundaries
  • media coverage (warning)
  • social bonds (disapproval)
  • safety valve (reduces more serious crimes)
  • social change
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anomie

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condition of instability from a breakdown of standards and values due to too much crime in an area

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conformists

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they have a strong belief in their cultural goal and accept the structural means to achieve their goal

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innovators

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have a strong belief in their cultural goal and reject legitimate means to achieve their goals

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ritualists

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have a weak belief in their cultural goal and accept the structural means but lack ambition to achieve their goals

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retreatists

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reject their cultural goal and reject the structural means to achieve their goal

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rebels

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reject all cultural goals and aim to tear down and replace the existing social means to achieve their goals

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status frustration

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working-class men feel frustrated by an inability to achieve the same status as members of the middle or upper class and so turn to crime to reach a sense of place and belonging in society.

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criminogenic capitalism

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capitalism causes crime

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ideological state apparatus

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institutions such as the media, the education system and religion. These work gradually to shape and maintain the way people think so that there is a reduced need for physical means of oppression.

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corporate crimes

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  • Crimes against employees
  • Crimes against customers
  • Environmental offences
  • Financial fraud
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primary deviance

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a violation of norms or expectations that does not result in a deviant being labeled with deviant behaviour

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secondary deviance

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an individual violating social norms and expectations because they were labeled and stigmatized due to the behaviour

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self-fulfilling prophecy

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shows how a belief or expectation of a person/group whether correct or not, affects the way a person/group will behave.

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BAME

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black, asian and ethnic minority people

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moral panic

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a widespread fear and often an irrational threat to society’s values, interests, and safety. Typically, a moral panic is perpetuated by the news media, most times engaged by politicians, and can result in increased social control

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anthropocentric

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humans have the right to dominate nature to their own ends.

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ecocentric

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humans and their environment are interdependent.

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positivist victimology

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there is a certain type of victim that can be identified prior to victimisation (hans von hentig)

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white collar crime according to chapman

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‘Crime committed in the course of legitimate employment by managers, executives, directors etc. that involves the abuse of power and trust to financially benefit themselves’

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crime survey on england and wales

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An annual survey in which a random sample of 47,000 people are interviewed face to face about their experiences of crime in the previous calendar year.

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self-reports

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A type of confidential and anonymous questionnaire which asks people whether they have committed particular crimes for which they have not been caught or punished.

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hales self report study

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Found that males engaged in substantially more serious criminality than females.

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self report study on female crime

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Found that the ratio of male crime to female crime is 1.33 to 1 rather than 9 to 1 as found in official statistics

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percent of serious crimes committed by men

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80%

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typical characteristics of criminals

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OS suggest that the ‘typical’ criminal is likely to be young, male, working class, and in some urban areas from BAME backgrounds.

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walkate - shoplifting and prostitution

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Notes that shoplifting and prostitution are often motivated by economic necessity - to provide children with food, toys and clothes

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three risk factors for levels of crime against black boys

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1 - Lack of father figure
2 - Negative experience of white culture
3 - Media

See street culture as more important than education and jobs

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primary green crime

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The direct result of the destruction and degradation of the planet’s resources

e.g. air pollution from carbon/ greenhouse emissions, deforestation

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secondary green crime

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Involves breaking existing laws and regulations

e.g. avoidable disasters, such as Bhopal (1984) and Chernobyl (1986)

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marxist cause/solution on crime

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Cause: inequality, poverty, criminogenic culture

Solution: politics need to make structural adjustments to the organisation of capitalist society:

  • e.g. reduce poverty, unemployment, homelessness
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left-realist cause/solution on crime

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Cause: relative deprivation and marginalisation

Solution:
- remove institutional racism of CJS
- govt investment in inner-city schools
- legislation to raise minimum wage
- businesses invest in poor areas and create more jobs

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interactionists cause/solution on crime

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Cause: Labelling

Solution:
- CJS treat all equally - root out discrimination
- Monitor sentencing
- Introduce restorative justice

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restorative justice

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A system of criminal justice that focuses on the rehabilitation of offenders through reconciliation with victims and the community at large.

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right-realist cause/solution on crime

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Cause: an immoral and idle underclass which is unwilling to work and is too dependent on an over-generous welfare state

Solution: members of the underclass need to be weaned off benefits. Murray advocates reducing benefits and introducing penalties which force people to look for jobs

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critical victimology

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structural factors in a society can force people into being a victim, such as being powerless (women/poor)

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