8/16/2019 ALL Essay Topics Crime and Deviance Copy

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Crime and Deviance – ALL possible essay topics

I – Theories of Crime

Assess functionalist  explanations of crime.

Assess Marxist  explanations of crime.

Assess Neo-Marxist/New Criminology explanations of crime.

Assess labelling theory/interactionist explanations of crime.

Assess feminist  explanations of crime.

Assess postmodernist  explanations of crime.

Assess New Left Realist  explanations of crime.

Assess Right Realist  explanations of crime.

Assess Control Theory/Situational Crime Prevention approaches to crime.

II – Ethnicity, Gender, Age, Locality, Social Class

Assess sociological explanations of the relationship between ethnicity and crime

Assess sociological explanations of the relationship between gender  and crime

Assess sociological explanations of the relationship between age  and crime

Assess sociological explanations of the relationship between locality/region and crime

Assess sociological explanations of the relationship between social class and crime

III – Crime on a Large Scale

 Assess sociological explanations for the types and patterns of green crime.

 Assess sociological explanations for the types and patterns of globalised crime.

 Assess sociological explanations for types and patterns of state crime.

Assess sociological explanations of the role of the mass media in creating moral panics about crime and deviance.

IV – Control, Prevention and Punishment

Assess sociological explanations of the control and prevention of crime.

Assess sociological explanations of victim studies/victimhood and crime.

Assess sociological explanations of the functions and forms of the punishment of offenders.

V – Suicide

Assess different (positivist/realist, intepretivist) sociological explanations of suicide ( Durkheim, Atkinson, Douglas, Taylor)