AQA- A-Level Sociology - Crime and Deviance. Neo-Marxism and crimes of the powerful

This consists of two separate power points, these could be delivered individually or put together to make a longer lesson. Each power point is designed to last 90 minutes. The lessons focus on the Marxist view of Crime and deviance including Neo-Marxism and Crimes of the powerful.

Included: Power point 1

• Education starter, answers included on the PP
• Marxism question and answer recap, answers provided
• Neo- Marxism critical criminology
• Taylor: Anti-determinism
• A fully social theory of deviance
• Evaluation of critical criminology
• Crimes of the powerful - definitions of occupational and corporate crime
• Research task - types of corporate crime
• Examples of types of corporate crime
• Play-dough task. Students to create an illustration of one of the corporate crimes using the play dough. Pupils then take a picture and label what the illustration is showing.

Included: Power point 2

• Education starter, 4 mark exam questions
• The abuse of Trust - Harold Shipman example
• The invisibility of corporate crime - partial visibility
• Explanations of corporate crime - worksheet provided. Students to use the Blue A-Level textbook to complete this task. Textbook pages not included. - basic answers included on the pp slide
• 10 mark exam question on Marxism - brief outline of what to include