Introduction to crime and deviance

Distribution and patterns of crime

  • How is crime measured?
  • Corporate and occupational crime
  • Environmental approaches to crime
  • Gender and crime
  • Ethnicity and crime
Different theories of criminal behaviour
  • Social control theories
  • Strain and subculture theories
  • critical / Marxist theories
  • Labelling theory and the media
Criminal justice system and suiside
  • The police
  • The court system
  • Punishment
  • Explanations of crime


What is crime?
Crime is an act which is illegal and against the official laws of society? e.g. murder 

What is deviance?
A deviant act is an act which goes against the values and norms of society, this  can be a crime but does not have to be for example eating noodles with your hands is deviant but now a crime.

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