Crime

1. Behaviour does not conform to societies norms and values and if detected is likely to lead to negative sanctions. Deviance can be but not necessarily illegal. (8)
6. A phrase used to describe the reaction of many people to incidents or reports of crime, often through the media. People change their behaviour on the basis of this fear (4, 2, 5)
7. An illegal act (such as shoplifting and murder) which is punishable by law (5)

2. Household based studies which ask respondents about their experiences of crime. They ask whether people have been a victim of crime and whether this was reported to the police. (6, 7)
3. A group of people whose behaviour is defined as a threat to society’s values. This is often transmitted through the media (4, 6)
4. These are views often negative which are fixed, standardised and distorted about a particular social group such as women. These views are often based on prejudice (13, 5)
5. This is where sociologists measure the negative impact of crime on society as a whole. An example of this would be that people don’t bother to go out at night for fear of having crime committed against them or their property (6, 5)
8. This explanation in based on the idea that society is control by a ruling class. The ruling class create laws which make certain behaviour by working class people illegal and the agencies of social control are directed to focus on working class crime (7, 8)
9. This where a person or group are subject to the same crime regularly over time (6, 13)
10. These are the statistics collected by the police about crimes reported and dealt with by them. These statistics allow for trends to be identified over long periods of time (8, 10)

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