year 13 sociology mock

Question 1

Outline two reasons why surveillance may not reduce crime
(4 marks)

Answer 1

Some crimes may be hidden from surveillance. Crime may happen in areas where there is no surveillance. For example, domestic violence or sexual abuse inside a house.

Criminals could hide their identity so no one can tell that it is them committing a crime. For example, the disguise could be wearing a mask and covering their face. This would mean the surveillance is ineffective.

Question 2

Outline three reasons for social class differences in patterns of offending
(6 marks)

Answer 2

Working-class individuals may experience poverty. Therefore, they may commit crimes such as theft to steal food or clothes etc.

The working-class are labelled as criminals, so they may end up giving up to the label and committing crime by creating a self-fulfilling prophecy due to labelling.

Middle-class individuals have more opportunity to commit crimes. For example, they could commit a form of white-collar crime at their job which leads to crime.