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Aqa Crime And Deviance Unit 6

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Can Anyone Please Confirm What The Past Few Essays Have Been Please

other than the jan 08 question, the ones i have written have been the ones that came up - i literally have all the papers right next to me.

Reply 181

Clefeen

Aithne13

don't worry, an A is really easy to get. All you need is 40/60. Besides you don't need to know all the studies, just maybe two or three for each topic.

Seriously? Someone told me it was 43/60. Hmmmm.

I am really hoping for a good grade on this paper. I need a high U for a B and a high B for an A :frown:

The thing that confuses me at the minute is left and right realists. The rest aren't too bad. Gonna revise these tomorrow.

What would be the structure of a really good high marked essay?

Would you always start with the definitions of crime and deviance in the first paragraph or does this waste time?

Reply 182

Aithne13

it was about 43/60 for SCY4 but because its the synoptic the grade boundaries are slightly lower.

In a nutshell...
New Right Realists are basically Capitalist Thatcherites who say that people are naturally selfish and this selfishness needs to be controlled by laws. people who do crime are responsible for their own actions and crime rises when the punishments are too lenient. If we have zero tolerance and harsher punishments there will be less crime.

Which in itself is complete *******s - countries with lenient sentences such as Norway have very low crime rates, whilst countries with tougher sentences like the US have higher crime rates (proportionately). Besides, capitalism needs to selfishness to exist, it needs us to be mass consumers and individuals. getting rid of human selfishness probably would get rid of crime, but it would also wave goodbye to capitalism.

New Left Realism (Lea and Young) use three concepts to define crime: relative deprivation (the gap between people's expectations of what they should have and reality. People's whose path is blocked from fulfilling these expectations often turn to crime in order to get them), marginalisation (people who are marginalised and under-represented politically, socially and ecomicially, often turn to crime) and subcultures (which arise due to marginalisation and relative deprivation - but they are not completely separate froim society as a high value is placed on material goods - crime is related to the economic structure of society).

if the question is about a theory e.g. functionalism, you should explain what that theory is. The same goes for methods. But there is no point explaining what 'crime and deviance' is unless it is less than about two sentences. otherwise it would definitely be a waste of time.

Reply 183

AnubisX

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The USSR had pretty high crime rates I don't think socialism gets rid of crime at all, just fuels it. After all Baldwin and Bottoms show that those in privately owned\rented accomodation were less likely to commit crime because of the stake in their property. Capitalism can reduce crime folks! :biggrin:

I think the realists have it pretty good on this topic, I agree with the New Right and New Left over building stonger communities and increasing informal social control to reduce crime.

Reply 184

emma_daton

is Right Realism Zero Tolerance - Informal styles of social control such as neigbours looking out for people in the community? controlling the behaviour of subcultures?

Reply 185

Aithne13

AnubisX

The USSR had pretty high crime rates I don't think socialism gets rid of crime at all, just fuels it. After all Baldwin and Bottoms show that those in privately owned\rented accomodation were less likely to commit crime because of the stake in their property. Capitalism can reduce crime folks! :biggrin:

I think the realists have it pretty good on this topic, I agree with the New Right and New Left over building stonger communities and increasing informal social control to reduce crime.

the USSR was a communist state not a socialist one. Communism did not solve any problems, they did have a high crime rate. But the USSR is not a very good example of a communist country - there has yet to be a communist state that truly reflects the view of Marx, so it is hard to postulate what a full communist state would bring in terms of crime and deviance.

Capitalism can reduce crime, but not necessarily in a good way, as Marxists say full capitalists do try and control the people through threat, if it were to come to extremes it would literally be a state of fear.

Scandinavian countries such as Norway can not be considered socialist nations. But due to their high tax rate and the governmental ownership of many of the industries (Norway even has a State Philosopher) it can be used as an example of a country where capitalism is weakened and yet has a very low violent crime rate.

where did you get the Baldwin and Bottom study from? all i have on them is:

Baldwin and Bottom ‘The Urban Criminal’ (1976), studied two council estates in Sheffield called ‘Gardenia’ and ‘Stonewall’ that were separated by dual carriageway. Gardenia had a higher number of offenders and 350% more crime than Stonewall. Both estates were originally seen as good, crime free areas. However, Gardenia had gone through a series of negative consequences that led to the high crime rate, this process is called ‘Tipping’. In Gardenia a number of ‘problem families’ had moved in, driving out those who could afford to leave, and leaving more space for problem families to move in, creating an unbalanced community.

Reply 186

FHNFredrick

totally scared right now.
you know if it's on interactionist theories.... then what exactly would you include?

all i'm pulling up is douglas and atkinson, lemert primary and secondary deviance, labelling theory by becker and deviancy amplification and moral panics.
what other interactionist theories on c&d is there?

: :s-smilie:

cared::

Reply 187

Aithne13

FHNFredrick

totally scared right now.
you know if it's on interactionist theories.... then what exactly would you include?

all i'm pulling up is douglas and atkinson, lemert primary and secondary deviance, labelling theory by becker and deviancy amplification and moral panics.
what other interactionist theories on c&d is there?

: :s-smilie:

cared::

thats pretty much it (i think) - but remember you will have to compare it to other theories.

Reply 188

FHNFredrick

yeah like a functionalist and marxist approach right?

i'm starting to worry about the syntopic section but i figure if i know the gist of things i can just make up some studies to go along if i get stuck remembering a name

hopefully hah.

Reply 189

astrokeofluck

If we get a question about examining the usefulness of Consensus theories in the study of C+D what would we write about?

Functionalism, obv. But what else?
Subcultural theories....
that's all i can think of really.

and then would the evaluation part be writing about conflict theories?

Marxism,
Feminism
etc

=s

For those who still don't know what came up in Jan's paper. let me clear things up for the last time!! lol!!!

MARXISM came up for the OCR crime and Deviance paper in Jan

INTERACTIONISM and LABELLING theory came up for the AQA one.

:wink:

Reply 190

AnubisX

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Aithne13

where did you get the Baldwin and Bottom study from? all i have on them

It is another conclusion of the same research. They found a correlation between crime and state owned accommodation (ie. council housing). Tbh, a lot of these studies are huge when you look at them, just textbooks and teachers compress them to a small paragraph and a few statistics.

Reply 191

username181178

FHNFredrick

totally scared right now.
you know if it's on interactionist theories.... then what exactly would you include?

all i'm pulling up is douglas and atkinson, lemert primary and secondary deviance, labelling theory by becker and deviancy amplification and moral panics.
what other interactionist theories on c&d is there?

: :s-smilie:

cared::

Interactionists:
Becker: Labelling Theory ('a crime isn't a crime until it's labelled as one'), Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.
Lemert: Primary & Secondary Deviance, Master Status.
Jock Young: The Drug Takers (he studied hippies and the way police reacted to them)
S. Cohen: Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Pearson: Hooligans

That's a brief outline of the main Interactionists. I don't have time to go in depth, unfortunately.

Reply 192

Clefeen

Who's looking forward to the exam then?

I just want to get it out the way.

Reply 193

charlie[]

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yeh cant wait to get it out the way, i wish i was just in the exam now (just cracked ethnicity - will probably forget it by thursday), garr

Bring it on!

39 marks into an A atm but Theory and Methods was tuff enough, didn't really get enough on feminism in that conflict essay. Really need to step my game up for this one. So are people touting ethnicity and suicide for AQA then and not OCR. Do you put in synoptic links for the 4 mark and 12 markers? I really got to cut down what to learn I think its a big boy this one. Later Tucksido

Reply 196

Tucker_07

Could someone summarise Messerschmidt's study of masculinity are something think its relevant to Ethnicity but got nowt on it. Ta.

Reply 197

Gaywood11

Tucker_07

Could someone summarise Messerschmidt's study of masculinity are something think its relevant to Ethnicity but got nowt on it. Ta.

Messerschmidt (1993)
Different groups of male youths to achieve masculinity through different types of crime:
White middle class
to achieve middle-class status, have to be subservient to teachers --> accommodating masculinity. Ouside school, more oppositional masculinity --> pranks, vandalism, drinking

White working class
oppositional masculinity in and out of school. Less chance of academic success, construct masculinity around being tough, opposing teahers' authority.

Black lower working class
no expectations of steady job. may use violence to express masculinity, or serious property crime for material success.

However, does not explain why only some males commit crimes, not others. Also assumes all boys in the same circumstances express masculinity in the same way

This is also generally a good synoptic link to education and labelling.

Hope this helped a little bit, although it is very brief.

Reply 198

ICouldHaveBeenJamesDean

Hey everyone

I've got the C and D exam on thurs too. Thing is I'm in a dilema :frown:

I've been revising from a revision guide that is very brief and in note form and my notes are very patchy and mixed up (also sometimes conficting with the study guide) So I'm really having trouble remembering the main points of each topic , its all very bits and bobs-ish , like I know somes bits but then can't carry my point out or I'll remember a sociologist and their perspective but not sure of what they said. Does anyone have a way that could help me remember the main ideas and sociologists?

Reply 199

Tucker_07

ICouldHaveBeenJamesDean

Hey everyone

I've got the C and D exam on thurs too. Thing is I'm in a dilema :frown:

I've been revising from a revision guide that is very brief and in note form and my notes are very patchy and mixed up (also sometimes conficting with the study guide) So I'm really having trouble remembering the main points of each topic , its all very bits and bobs-ish , like I know somes bits but then can't carry my point out or I'll remember a sociologist and their perspective but not sure of what they said. Does anyone have a way that could help me remember the main ideas and sociologists?

Make a code for each topic works for me.

Aqa Crime And Deviance Unit 6

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