Introduction to Unit 4

Unit 4 exam is split into three sections as shown below:

Section 1 - Crime and Deviance - 12 mark question and 21 mark question. (23 Marks) [45 Minutes for this section]

Section 2 - Research Methods in the context of Crime and Deviance - 9 mark question and 15 mark question. (24 Marks) [30 Minutes for this section]

Section 3 - Theory and Methods - 33 Mark Essay [45 Minutes for this section]

The Unit consists of:

• Different theories of crime, deviance, social order and social control

• The social distribution of crime and deviance by age, ethnicity, gender, locality and social class, including recent patterns and trends in crime. 

• Globalisation and crime in contemporary society; the mass media and crime; green crime; human rights and state crimes. 

• Crime control, prevention and punishment, victims, and the role of the criminal justice system and other agencies.

• The sociological study of suicide and its theoretical and methodological implications. 

• The connections between sociological theory and methods and the study of crime and deviance.