A2 SCLY4 Crime and Deviance Sociology Exam June 2014

I'll put an essay together and will post it on here tomorrow, don't worry! For now I can give you some criticisms you can make notes on-

With Green Crime the government are slow to act on it or put resources into fighting against it; this means they are not representative in official statistics. Also it can be difficult to measure because they can be hidden, there may not be noticeable victims to the crime and are often carried out in other countries where laws are less strict/no laws at all. This means it may not even be classed as a crime
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State Crime- The state often justify their own actions so can it be classed as criminal behaviour? The state break laws on human rights- but is there an agreement on human rights? The state can hide their own action through their own resources like the media. This means that is isn't representative in official statistics and often people don't even know it's going on. State Crime can be difficult to measure, it relies on public and historical documents which have weaknesses and limitations. The media can cover up activity and control what information people know about- meaning they can create an ideology of it not even being a crime. It can be very expensive to convict the state of a crime because they will have more money which will give them a greater chance of winning court cases against them.

Lauren

I'll put an essay together and will post it on here tomorrow, don't worry! For now I can give you some criticisms you can make notes on-

With Green Crime the government are slow to act on it or put resources into fighting against it; this means they are not representative in official statistics. Also it can be difficult to measure because they can be hidden, there may not be noticeable victims to the crime and are often carried out in other countries where laws are less strict/no laws at all. This means it may not even be classed as a crime
.
State Crime- The state often justify their own actions so can it be classed as criminal behaviour? The state break laws on human rights- but is there an agreement on human rights? The state can hide their own action through their own resources like the media. This means that is isn't representative in official statistics and often people don't even know it's going on. State Crime can be difficult to measure, it relies on public and historical documents which have weaknesses and limitations. The media can cover up activity and control what information people know about- meaning they can create an ideology of it not even being a crime. It can be very expensive to convict the state of a crime because they will have more money which will give them a greater chance of winning court cases against them.

Lauren

I hate questions like this , and yeah I'd definitely go with that! I'd also talk about class too - create an argument that the poor are more religious (norris and inglehart existential theory) also NRMs have attracted different groups: world rejecting: working class and world affirming: middle class.
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SCLY3 is easy! I don't understand people who say that it's not and that crime and deviance is easier, pha x

wtf is the state crime topic

i hardly have any notes

is that the globalisation topic?

for crime 21 markers, realism, state crime, green crime and locality is defo predicted. for the 33 marker social policy, value freedom, modernism-postmodernism and globalisation or positivist methods as Assess the view that interpretivist methods are the most appropriate methods for researching society came up a few yrs ago. Im prayinggggggggggggggggg for social policy

Here you go It's a tad long, I do apologise!

Hope this helps in some way!

They asked Marxism and Sociology as a science last year, so I reckon you could leave those out...which is great because sociology as a science is horrific! :O


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Im already leaving out the two topics in theory which came up last year (marxism and science) is there anychance i could leave out some topics in crime and deviance or is that too risky? í ½í¸”

The predictions for crime and deviance are feminism, social policy, postmodernity (I think) but the 33 marker could also possibly be a method as it hasn't come up as a 33 marker for a while... for the 21 markers it's realism, green crime and state crime, locality and crime..

For scly3 I think there might be an ideology and science question, religion renewal and choice, probably new age as that seems to always be there and I'm hoping and praying for secularisation!

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Ahh thanks so much! I hope locality and crime comes up and ideology & science for beliefs!

Good luck!

sorry to butt in but what do you mean by locality and crime? which topic is that??

It's crime depending on the location. Unsure of the topic but here's a website about the topic:

http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/sociology/comments/crime-and-location