A-Level Sociology Crime and Deviance Revision Bundle

Everything you need to revise Crime and Deviance for AQA A-level sociology Paper 3 (7192/3), in three depths so you can start early and finish fast.

Three sets of notes, for three stages of revision

• In-depth notes — over 100 pages. The full treatment of all 14 topics: the theories, the named studies, the evidence and the evaluation. For first-pass revision and for building essay content.
• Mid-depth notes — 39 pages. The same ground, condensed. For the second pass, when you know the material and need to tighten it.
• At-a-glance sheets — 20, in colour. One page per area. For the last fortnight, and for the morning of the exam.

6 colour mind maps, in PDF and PNG, covering functionalism and strain theory, subcultural theories, Marxism and neo-Marxism, labelling theory, right realism and left realism.

12 exam practice questions with full answers, in the AQA formats.

The 14 topics

1. Crime statistics
2. Consensus theories — functionalism, social control theory and strain theory
3. Subcultural theories
4. Traditional Marxist and neo-Marxist perspectives
5. Labelling theory
6. Left realism and right realism, including situational, environmental and community crime prevention
7. Post and late modern theories — social change and crime
8. Crime control, surveillance and punishment
9. Social class and crime
10. Ethnicity and crime
11. Gender and crime, including girl gangs, and rape and domestic violence
12. Victimology — why some people are more likely than others to be victims of crime
13. Global crime, state crime and green crime
14. The media and crime, including moral panics

The exam questions

4 and 6 mark outline questions

• Outline three ways in which surveillance may be used to control crime in modern societies (6)
• Outline three reasons why females are less likely to commit crime than males (6)
• Outline three structural factors which may explain differences in offending by ethnicity (6)
• Outline three ways in which racism may manifest itself in the criminal justice system (6)
• Outline two ways in which the media give a distorted view of crime (4)
• Outline two sociological explanations of state crime (4)
• Outline two reasons why people who commit green crimes often do not get punished (4)

10 mark 'analyse using the item' questions

• Applying material from Item A, analyse two ways in which crime has changed in response to postmodern society (10)
• Applying material from Item A, analyse two reasons for differences in patterns of crime by social class background (10)
• Applying material from Item A, analyse two reasons why some groups are more likely to be victims of crime than others (10)

30 mark essay questions

• Evaluate sociological perspectives on the relationship between globalisation and crime (30)
• Evaluate the contribution of right and left realist approaches to an understanding of crime and deviance (30)
• Evaluate the contribution of consensus theory to our understanding of crime and deviance (30)

Each answer is written out in full, at more length than you would manage under timed conditions, so you can see the whole range of what the question allows and take what you need.

Written by someone who marked the paper

Karl Thompson taught A-level sociology for 18 years and was an AQA examiner from 2010 to 2018, across all three papers, including the first two years of the current 7192 specification. The notes are written to what the mark schemes actually reward — AO1 for knowledge, AO2 for application and AO3 for evaluation, which is where most marks are lost.

Teachers

The at-a-glance sheets work as revision lessons and cover work, and the full answers as model answers for marking practice.

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