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What is crime

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An action that’s is against the law

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What is deviance

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Actions that go against norms morals and values

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Norms meaning

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A set of unwritten social rules or explanations

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Values meaning

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Ideas and beliefs that’s are important to us

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What is social construction

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Crimes and deviant acts that are made up by people in society

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Example of social construction

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Place and time

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What is the court system knows as

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Judiciary

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What is cps

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Crown prosecution service

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What do Magistrates give

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They deal with less crime and gives 6 months in jail

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What are crown courts

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They do serious crime and give punishments of life sentence and normal prison sentence

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What are functionalist view of judiciary

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Functionalism has a positive view and a consensus view because the help keep society a safe place

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What is an example that’s supports functionalism view of the law

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Prisons because they take dangerous people of the streets

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What is Marxist view of judiciary

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That’s the courts favourite the rich and the rich has more power than the poor

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Example of Marxist view of the judiciary

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That’s the judges work for the rich

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Functionalism view of the police force

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They have a positive view because the help to protect civilians

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Functionalism view of the police example

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2011 riots

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Marxist view of the police force

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Negative because the police benefit from the rich and the overreact over small things

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Example of Marxist view of the police force

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Hillsborough1989

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What is community police

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Deal with ethic minority

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community police when successful

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When there is tension between the police and community

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What is zero tolerance police

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Being strict over the smallest things

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Example of being successful from the zero tolerance police

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They make communities feel safer because they are taking the bad people out

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Informal social control meaning

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People opinions when u done something wrong they will find a way to punish you and make you feel bad

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Formal social control

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You have to follow certain rule and if you brake them you will revive proper sanctions but when you are a adult if you brake rules you could end up in court

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The order of ethnicity Who is the most likely to get arrested
1: black African Caribbean (three more time likely to be arrested) 2: Asian men (increasing over the years ) 3: white people (less likely to be arrested)
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Which class is more like to be arrested
Lower class
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Who looked at ethnicity and crime
Paul Gilroy
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Why did black people turn to crime
Because they had to fight a injustice society
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A negative of Paul Gilroy research
Official statistics can’t be trusted
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What is a scapegoat
People who are blamed for something they didn’t do
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Who talks about scapegoats
Stuart hall
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Example of scapegoat
All Muslims are teriorist
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Example of police force being instutinal racist
Stephen Lawrence enquiry
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What is the dark figure
When all crimes that have not been reported or recorded
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A example of why people won’t report
Because of fear or can’t be bothered
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Example of police officer not recording crime
Racism Police bias Can’t be bothered
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Give me a reason of why crime is rising
Because of more laws People not reporting them because of fear
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What is victim studies
When people do surveys about them being a victim
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Names weakness of victim studies
Too much relying on memory
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What is white collar crime
Benefit the individual
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Who was the first functionalist to talk about crime
Emile Durkheim
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What does anomie mean
Being insufficiently inter-grated into society Norms moral and values
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Example of anomie
Crime, suicide and delinquency
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What is social change
Changes that happens over time to fully change the future because of there human interaction
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Example of social change
The suffragette movement
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Who adapted Durkheim view
Robert Merton
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What is Robert Merton theory called
Statin theory
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Why did Merton adapted Durkheim view
Because it was to vague
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What does the strain theory talk about
Achieving the American dream
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What is the American dream
A nuclear family Living outer suburbs Good wages from parents
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Five ways people react to not achieving the American dream
conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion
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Conformity meaning
involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group
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Rebellion
People can’t achieve it any the decide to go to sub cultures and fight against it
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Retreatsim
The give up achieving the American dream
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What is rituasim
People don’t accept your goals
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Innovation meaning
They improve the American dream
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Disadvantage of Merton view
Can’t explain where rules first came from
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What is a subculture
A small group with its own Norms morals and values
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What is the subculture theory
The do crime and deviance because the reject the majority view
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Who talks about the American subculture theory
Albert Cohan
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What is reaction formation
Lack of culture deprivation And material deprivation
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What is status frustration
They are frustrated with there position so they creat there own subculture
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Who talks about reaction formation and status frustration
Albert Cohan
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Who talks about culture deprivation
Cloward and ohlin
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Critique of cloward and ohlin
Fails to consider white collar crime Women have more blocked opportunities then men Not everyone gets sucked into illegitimate career structure
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What is corporate crime
Benefit the company
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Example of corporate crime
Volkswagen 2015
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Why do people do crime in Marxism’s theory
Consumerism and capitalism
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Which sociologist Marxist talks about white collar crime and corporate crime
Sutherland
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What does Sutherland talks about
Crimes happen due to people power in society and why crime we treated and consider differently in society
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Examples of white collar crime
Fraud money laundering and embezzlement
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What does Marxist say about corporate crime
It benefits the higher status
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Which sociologist talks about people being in power doing crime
William Chambliss
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What does Chambliss says
Rich people when commuted crime dies bribery and threats so they don’t go in jail
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What is capitalism
A private system when individuals own capital good
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What is consumerism
When u get payed by the rich and you give the money back to but there products because you think you need them
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Example of consumerism
Buying summer clothes because you are going to the summer
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Who talks about the labelling theory in 1963
Howard Becker
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What does Howard Becker talk about
Understand youth culture in relation to crime and delinquency
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What’s is a master status
The main thing that about you that everybody knows
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Once a person is seen deviant or criminal they gain a ……..
Label
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Are older people vulnerable to a status and why
No Because they normally stay at home
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Are younger people vulnerable to labels and why
Yes Because they act in groups
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How does a master stays effect other people
It’s effect how they are and behave in-front if other people
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What are Marxist view of crime
crime is caused by massive wealth inequality
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What does relative poverty mean
The level of poverty that changes based on concept relative to the economic climate
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Which sociologist talks about relative poverty
Peter townsend

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