AQA SOCIOLOGY - Paper 3 - CONFLICT THEORIES OF CRIME AND DEVIANCE

This pack contains a 64-slide PowerPoint presentation and 40 page student booklet

The lesson offers comprehensive coverage of CONFLICT THEORIES OF CRIME & DEVIANCE and contains the following:

Starter

• Re-cap of Marxism and the Marxist Structure

The Traditional Marxist Perspective of Crime and Deviance

• Marxist view of Crime
• Working Class Crime
  • types of crimes committed by the WC
  • Poverty, Utilitarian Crimes, Alienation
• Crimes of the middle-class
  • Corporate Crimes
  • White Collar Crimes

*** Elite Deviance**
*** White Collar vs Corporate Crimes**

• Laws Reflect the needs/values of the Ruling Classes
• Ideological Functions of the Law
• Corporate Law - case study: 2007 Corporate Homicide Case

Mid-lesson plenary/summary task - 8 questions designed to test students learning so far

**Law Enforcement and Punishment **
Benefits Street - viewing and note taking task

Evaluation of the Marxist View of Crime

**Mid-lesson Consildation Activities: **

Mind-mapping and articles to be read/annotated

**Neo-Marxist View of Crime **

• Fully Social Theory of Deviance

Stuart Hall - Neo-Marxist Views of Crime

• Moral Panics - tasks, examples and activities

New Left Realism

Jack Young
Flaws in this perspective

Crimes of the Powerful

Reiman & Leighton; The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison

• What is White Collar Crime?
• Occupational Crimes
• Corporate Crimes
• The scale and types of Corporate Crime

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Abuse of Trust **

• Harold Shipman case study - tasks
• Case Study: Abuse of trust by the Police
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  Invisibility of Corporate Crimes**

Reading task / Q*A
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Explanation of Corporate Crimes**

• Strain Theory summary
• Differential Association summary
• Labelling Theory summary
• Marxism summary

Summary of Conflict Theory

The booklet is to be filled in by students in the lesson. It contains all of the other resources needed i.e. articles, images, spaces to complete tasks, etc.

The PowerPoint is comprehensive but is also broken up in to smaller, managable sections. You are free to chop the PowerPoint up in to several smaller sessions and share with learners if that would suit your approach.