AQA A Level Sociology - C&D Victimology

A complete lesson on victimology for Yr 13 Sociology students studying Crime and Deviance on the AQA specification.

Layout of the lesson:

• Do now, quick recap questions on previous topic of punishment
• Handout recapping on situational, environmental and social and community crime prevention strategy to encourage recall and AfL
• The lesson then moves on to a MWB activity (recall)
• Getting started, exploring what a victim is and why it’s important to study them as well as their portrayal in the media.
• Definition of victim
• Discussion around the social construction of the ‘ideal victim’
• Patterns of victimisation, handout available for students to explore patterns, answer concept questions and using this information, answer a 4 mark exam question. 4 mark exam question has a mark scheme to allow self-assessment
• Exploring the impact of victimisation, secondary victimisation and the fear of victimisation.
• Exploring victimology, both positivist victimology and critical victimology. Handout available for students to read over and answer 9 questions to check their knowledge and understanding.
• Plenary, 6 mark question on the reasons why victims may not report crimes with mark scheme available for self-assessment.

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