Download or read book OCR A level Sociology Student Guide 3 Debates in contemporary society Globalisation and the digital social world Crime and deviance written by Katherine Roberts and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinforce understanding of the content examined in A Level Paper 3: Debates in contemporary society: Globalisation and the digital social world; and Crime and deviance. Packed full of clear topic summaries, knowledge check questions and sample exam-style questions and answers with commentaries, this guide will help students aim for and achieve the highest grades. This Student Guide will help to: - Identify key content for the exams with our concise coverage of topics - Avoid common pitfalls with clear definitions and exam tips throughout - Reinforce learning with bullet-list summaries at the end of each section test knowledge with rapid-fire knowledge check questions and answers - Find out what examiners are looking for with our Question & Answers section
Download or read book Debates in Contemporary Society with Crime and Deviance written by Jonathan Rowe and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Study Guide prepares teachers and students for OCR A-Level Sociology Paper 3 by examining in detail the material for Section A (Globalisation & the Digital Social World) and Section B Option 1 (Crime & Deviance). All topics from the OCR Specification are covered along with exam practice, research tips and advice for evaluating in essays.
Download or read book Crime Deviance and Society written by Ana Rodas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive introduction to criminological theory and examines how crime and deviance are constructed.
Download or read book OCR A Level Sociology Student Guide 3 Debates Globalisation and the digital social world Crime and deviance written by Steve Chapman and published by Philip Allan. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exam Board: OCR Level: AS/A-level Subject: Sociology First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: Summer 2016 Reinforce your understanding throughout the course with our Student Guides. They provide clear topic summaries with sample questions and model answers that will help to improve exam technique to achieve higher grades. Written by experienced authors Steve Chapman, Lesley Connor and Katherine Roberts, this guide covers Component 3: Debates in contemporary society in the OCR A-level Sociology specification H580. It focuses on the compulsory topic Globalisation and the digital and social world and the optional topic Crime and deviance. Content guidance will enable you to: -Follow the OCR specification for these topics for exam tips, knowledge checks and definitions of the key terms you need to know. - Ensure you know and understand the meaning of sociological concepts essential for the entire course. Model questions and answers will enable you to: - Understand the A-level examination and the different sections of the papers for this component. - Compare model answers to find out exactly what examiners are looking for and what skills are required to achieve top band marks.
Download or read book Crime Deviance and Society written by Susan Caffrey and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greenwich Readers is a major new anthology series designed specifically to supplement teaching resources at undergraduate level in the following subject areas: social sciences, humanities, psychology and law. Drawing together a varied and frequently inaccessible range of essential readings and key texts, this ongoing programme has been carefully selected to provide a detailed overview of individual subjects and forms a framework for specific courses. The overall series has been devised to offer a solution to many of the problems students encounter in accessing set course texts, and it is hoped the anthologies will alleviate both pressure on library resources as well as ensuring higher levels of course completion. All volumes benefit from introductory essays and appropriate linking passages, and full textual references are included where available. This collection is one which brings together the key theoretical issues in the sociology of crime and deviance. It combines texts which have an historical importance in the development of criminological theory and more contemporary readings which have utilised and developed these. The anthology provides a critical approach to crime and deviance, alerting the reader to the dangers of thinking too simplistically about these complex social phenomena.
Download or read book Handbook on Crime and Deviance written by Marvin D. Krohn and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2nd edition of the Handbook provides an interdisciplinary coverage of new understandings of the most important developments in the sociology of crime and deviance that is current and emerging for research, methodology, practice, and theory in criminology. It fosters research to take the fields of criminology and criminal justice in new directions. Unlike any other handbook, it includes chapters on cutting-edge quantitative data and analytical techniques that are shaping the future of empirical research and expanding theoretical explanations of crime and deviance. It further devotes a section to the most current and innovative methodological issues. Chapters are updated providing an inclusive discussion of the current research and the theoretical and empirical future of crime and deviance. This handbook is of great interest for advanced undergraduates, graduates students, researchers and scholars in criminology, criminal justice, sociology and related fields, such as social welfare, economics, and psychology.
Download or read book The Death and Resurrection of Deviance written by M. Dellwing and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are reports of the 'death of deviance' premature? This collection brings together leading international scholars to analyse uses of the 'deviance' concept to argue its vitality and show its possible utility in a variety of fields including religion, education and media narratives.
Download or read book Crime and Deviance written by Tony Lawson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Debates in Criminology written by Chad Posick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of theory and research in criminology. Adopting a unique and refreshing approach to criminological theory, it focuses on the great debates in criminology from its inception as a field to the present day. It explores the debates that have motivated criminological thought, that have represented turning points in theoretical and empirical trajectories, that have offered mini-paradigm shifts, and that have moved the field forward. Coverage includes: Classical debates, including the work of Lombroso, Durkheim, and Sutherland; Sociological vs. psychological debates in criminology; Control theory and cultural deviance theory; Criminal career and trait-based theory; Theory testing in criminology; Critical theories in criminology; Debates on the state of criminology and criminal justice; Policy issues in criminology. Each chapter explores several key debates, summarizes key points, and offers a discussion of the current empirical status. This book is novel in emphasising the role of debate in criminology and offering an enlightening synthesis of theorists and their perspectives. It is essential reading for students taking courses on criminological theory and teachers of those theories.
Download or read book Theoretical Integration in the Study of Deviance and Crime written by Steven F. Messner and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to best generate theoretical growth in the contemporary study of deviance and crime has been the source of much debate. This book represents a diverse range of viewpoints concerned about theoretical integration and its benefits. The chapters encompass both discussion of the requisites for integrating theories and examinations of methodological strategies to test these theories. By providing a source for those grappling with the issue of theoretical integration, the book is sure to stimulate further theoretical development in the sociology of deviance and in criminology.
Download or read book Crime Deviance and Society written by Susan Caffrey and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporate and Governmental Deviance written by M. David Ermann and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate and Governmental Deviance, Fifth Edition, is a reader intended for use in courses on corporate crime in departments of sociology and criminology. This edition has been updated with several new readings, including an article on the recently uncovered government experiments with radiation.
Download or read book The Nurture Versus Biosocial Debate in Criminology written by Kevin M. Beaver and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nurture Versus Biosocial Debate in Criminology: On the Origins of Criminal Behavior and Criminality takes a contemporary approach to address the sociological and the biological positions of human behavior by allowing preeminent scholars in criminology to speak to the effects of each on a range of topics. Kevin M. Beaver, J.C. Barnes, and Brian B. Boutwell aim to facilitate an open and honest debate between the more traditional criminologists who focus primarily on environmental factors and contemporary biosocial criminologists who examine the interplay between biology/genetics and environmental factors.
Download or read book Shades of Deviance written by Rowland Atkinson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shades of Deviance is a turbo-driven guide to crime and deviance. It offers politically engaged, thought-provoking and accessibly written accounts of a wide range of socially and legally prohibited acts. This updated and revised edition is designed to be essential reading for general readers, undergraduate students in the fields of criminology and sociology, and those preparing to embark on degree courses in these fields. Written by field-leading experts from across the globe and designed for those who want a clear and exciting introduction to the complex areas of crime and deviance, this book provides short overviews of a wide range of social problems, harms and criminal acts, offering a series of cutting-edge and critical treatments of issues such as war and terrorism, incels and the alt-right, ecocide, trolling, hate crime and chemsex. A guide is also given to further readings and films to develop the reader’s understanding of these issues. This new edition has been fully revised and extended, with new entries on robot sex, protest, child soldiers, online abuse, cybercrime, drug trafficking, gangs and weapon use. Shades of Deviance encourages readers to critically reconsider their ideas about what is right and wrong, about what is socially harmful and which problems we should focus our attention on. It offers careful analysis and reasoned explanation of complex issues in a world in which sensationalist headlines, anxiety and fear about crime permeate our lives. Read it to be prepared for some of the key debates shaping the world to come.
Download or read book OCR Sociology Student Guide 3 Debates in Contemporary Society written by Steve Chapman and published by Philip Allan. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by experienced teacher Steve Chapman, this Student Guide for Sociology: -Identifies the key content you need to know with a concise summary of topics examined in the A-level specifications -Enables you to measure your understanding with exam tips and knowledge check questions, with answers at the end of the guide -Helps you to improve your exam technique with sample answers to exam-style questions -Develops your independent learning skills with content you can use for further study and research
Download or read book Video Games Crime and Next Gen Deviance written by Craig Kelly and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, freely available to read online. Drawing on the emerging deviant literature perspective, this book explores a range of culturally embedded harms and other activities to offer new insight on the idea that video games are intertwined with forms of deviancy.
Download or read book Readings in Deviant Behavior written by Nathaniel Eugene Terrell and published by Wadsworth Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: READINGS IN DEVIANT BEHAVIOR: CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY brings together over 50 articles in 16 chapters. The text is organized traditionally, beginning with a discussion on the nature of deviance followed by material on theories and perspectives to explain deviance and ending with articles that discuss forms of deviant behavior. Each chapter begins with an introduction and concludes with questions for discussion. The mix of contemporary and classic readings explores the theoretical approaches to deviant and contemporary issues. High-tech, white-collar crime and gender issues are included. This text parallels the organization of the best-selling Clinard/Meier text but is general enough to be used with other textbooks or as a stand-alone textbook.
