Synoptic Links For Crime And Deviance...

Hey, can anyone help? I'm really struggling on identifying synoptic links for the AQA A2 Sociology Crime and Deviance Paper.
Its linking them to other modules that is the problem, eg education, health, media etc.
I did Health at AS and can't think of any synoptic links!

Can anyone help?!

Thanks

Charlie :smile:

Reply 1

charlier2810

I think one might be to do with mental illness and the sick role in health, but not sure.
For education... could you put something about Cohen and 'Status Fraustration'?

help!!!!

Reply 2

kellywood_5

Education's OK because you can link the fact that working class boys and some ethnic minorities do worse at school to the fact that these groups also commit more crime. You could talk about deviant subcultures and labelling and the self-fulfiling prophecy. No idea about health though as I didn't do it. That sounds like quite a tricky one to link, but the mental health idea sounds like a good one because a lot of crimes are committed by people who are mentally unstable.

Reply 3

kitty_koo

do you have the book Collins Sociology A2 for AQA: second edition by Stephen Moore, Dave Aiken and Steve Chapman? On each section for crime and deviance the relevant synoptic links are given

Reply 4

Laevis

Crime and Deviance and Religion: Secularisation, morality(lack thereof), disorder, crime
Crime and Deviance and Family: 'Death' of the nuclear family, less stable at home, less authority figures- commit more crime.
Crime and Deviance and Health: Mentally ill committing crimes unvoluntarily.
Crime and Deviance and Media: Media create moral panics which leads to deviancy amplificaton, Stan Cohen (Mods&Rockers)
They just spring to mind.

Reply 5

LinMolko321

Families and households - Single parent families, primary/secondary socialisation in the family, divorce/ domestic violence

Education - Labelling theory/ self fulfilling prophecy, young males having status frustration (Marx)

Reply 6

mooncheese89

As for status frustration (A.Cohen, blocked opportunities etc), you could link it to Paul Willis' study 'Learning to Labour' of those boys in school, the 'lads'.

Also when talking about ethnicity & crime, you've got the idea that Afro-Caribbean boys have high rates of offending, and are more likely to live in one-parent households than other ethnic groups, so that can be linked to Functionalist and/or New Right ideas of the family. (can't think of a statistic or sociologist for the crime rate at the moment though...haven't started revising yet!)

Reply 7

starfish321

Education - Anti-school sub-cultures

Media - What Tony Sewell said about the media constructing a "gangsta" and "hyper-male" image for youngafro-carribean boys.

Reply 8

adz06

Remember also to put in some current evidence apparently the examiners love it.

Reply 9

LaurenFah

^ Agreed.

Use contemporary examples! Even things you have seen on the news, current moral panics or folk devils... anything!

Reply 10

Yusuf.T

ok the thing im really confuzzled on is when the Q asks to make links to crime and deviance and Socioligical theories.. i know.. i bet your all thinking HUH?
ok well what im not sure about is when they ask u to make the links, should i give an breif overview of how the theory sees society ( e.g Func "Organic thingy") and then say as they see everything as having a good effect for every1 then they sees crime and D. as having positive functions 4 the general will of society.
ok sorry about the really BAD attempt at an example to show you what i mean so if nayone can actully make sense of what i have just written then any help would be MUUUUUCH appreciated

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