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macpherson report 1999

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black men more likely to be stopped and searched by police - institutional racism

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situational crime prevention ?

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changing physical environment of an area to make crime harder to commit
- eg. cctv/ lighting in streets

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environmental crime prevention?

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  • right realist

- Zero Tolerance Policy, petty crime is treated strictly to make serious crime less appealing

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formal and informal sanctions ?

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formal- police/officials

informal - fam/ed/peers

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structuralists on crime ?

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crime is caused by inequalities in wealth and income - to tackle crime this must be tackled too

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Durkheim

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defiance allows social change which is beneficial for a healthy stable society

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Cohen

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deviance acts as a safety valve without threatening social stability - also used as a warning device

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merton ?

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strain theory- crime is a response to failing to achieve societies cultural goals

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status frustration?

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lack of opportunity to succeed in mainstream soc due to relative deprivation leads to dissatisfaction with social position

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lea and young ?

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left realist

- relative deprivation is a factor leading to crime, media contributes to this and subcultures are a result of it

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Wilson

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  • right realist

- people commit crime as gains outweigh chances of being caught and punished

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Broken Window Theory

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  • right realist

- tolerating 1 broken window makes people think they get get away with more crime

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Bowling and Phillips ?

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police racism results in higher suspicion against black people in general

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Gilroy

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  • neo marx

- young blacks aren’t more criminal, they just get labelled this way

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how many prisoners are male

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96%

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merton (gender)

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culture and lifestyle of young boys lead to crime eg. play with toy guns

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chivalry thesis

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Pollak- men are socialised into protecting women so judges are more lenient with them

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abbott and wallace

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women are more restricted at home and have bedroom culture so less crime opportunities

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liberation thesis

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westwood- female identities are changing and they adopt male behaviour so increased female crime

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marx ideology

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set of ruling ideas that keep workers in their place

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fem ideology

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ideology = set of ideas to keep women oppressed

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liberal ideology

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ideology is oppressive - pluralists reject the idea of the monopoly of truth

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althusser

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neo marx - ideological state apparatus is a to of capitalism to justify class inequality

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Gomm

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scientists always look to prove their theories whereas sociologists look for true social picture

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Traditional view of science

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objective and evidence based

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science as a religion

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circularity of beliefs
no alternative
supporting explanations for bad times

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Becker

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labelling - an act gets labelled as deviant by society

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Lemert

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Most people commit primary deviance - when it gets labelled it becomes more common

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Marx theory of crime

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agree social control is necessary to keep order but capitalism is exploitative and social control benefits the ruling class

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Chambliss and Mankoff

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most laws keep w/c people away from property of the rich

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Cohen- media

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media creates deviance by amplifying it

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media as a cause of crime

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tv shows and games - youths may idealise characters and act like them, frequent exposure can desensitise people

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state crime ?

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committed by the gov

- can be politically motivated eg rigging elections for hidden agenda

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natural human rights

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come from being human- life

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civil human rights

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constructed by humans - education access

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spiral of denial

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  • state denies human rights abuses
  • proof it happened and state claims it’s wrong
  • proven right and state justifies it
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transnational organised crime

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committed by global criminal organisations eg mafia

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hobbs and dunningham

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“glocal”- local networks with global links eg drug smuggling

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why is globalisation harder to track

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across boarders
advanced technology to hide identities
secretive nature- harder to research

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South

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splits green crime into 2

  • primary = immediate impact
  • secondary = individual breaks laws in place to protect the earth
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Beck

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We live in global risk society- green crime risks are global eg global warming

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Lynch

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green criminology - actions that harm humans and animals not just ‘breaking the law’

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held et al

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crime has become globalised

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