AQA A-Level Sociology: Crime & Deviance Complete Revision Notes

This is a resource solely made by myself, who received an A* in A-Level AQA Sociology. This pack includes in-depth Cornell-style notes for each individual topic according to the official specification and textbook. The notes involve key ideas and theories/theorists on the left side and condensed explanations on the right hand side, with evaluation running throughout on most pages. In PDF form and GoodNotes (upon request). Topics include: Practice exam questions

- Explanations of Crime

• Functionalism on Crime
• Strain Theory: Functionalism on Crime
• Subcultures: Functionalism on Crime
• Marxists on Crime
• Marxists: White Collar Crime
• Marxists: White Collar Crime Explanations
• Neo-Marxists
• Interactionalists (Labelling and Crime)
• Interactionalists (Labelling and Deviance)
• Practice questions on labelling and crime
• Left Realism on Crime
• Left Realism on Crime Prevention
• Right Realism on Crime
• Right Realism on Crime Prevention
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  **Gender & Crime **
• Bias For & Against Women
• Explaining Female Crime
• Explaining Male Crime
  Ethnicity in Crime & Justice
• Black and minority ethnicity (BME) in statistics
• Explanations for BME Crime
• Additional Explanations and Victimisation
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  **Media & Crime **
• The Medias Presentation of Crime
• The Media Causing Crime
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  Globalisation, Green Crime & State Crime
• Globalisation
• Environmental Crime
• State Crime & Definitions
• Explaining State Crime
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  **Crime, Punishment & Victims **
• Crime Prevention
• Surveillance (control)
• Punishment & Its Functions
• Victims of Crime
• Patterns of Victimisation