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This powerpoint is purposefully made for iGCSE Sociology using the most recent Cambridge syllabus.

It fully covers - 6.2 What are the patterns of and explanations for crime and deviance?

6.2.1 Patterns of crime and victimisation:
• Age
• Social class
• Gender
• Ethnicity

6.2.2 Explanations for crime and deviance based on age:
• Police targeting / stop and search
• Self-fulfilling prophecy
• Stereotyping
• Gang culture
• Socialisation and social control
• Lack of opportunity
• Status frustration

6.2.3 Explanations for crime and deviance based on ethnicity:
• Institutional racism
• Prejudice and discrimination
• Police targeting / stop and search
• Material and relative deprivation
• Stereotyping
• Gang culture
• Status frustration

6.2.4 Explanations for crime and deviance based on gender:
• Chivalry thesis
• Culture of masculinity
• Socialisation and social control
• Misogyny
• Stereotyping
• Gang culture
• Lack of opportunity

6.2.5 Explanations for crime and deviance based on social class:
• Social exclusion
• Material and relative deprivation
• Inadequate socialisation
• Lack of opportunity
• Status frustration
• Power inequalities
• Police targeting / stop and search

6.2.6 Sociological theories on crime and deviance:
• Postmodernism
• Interactionism (including labelling and moral panic theory)
• Functionalism (including the New Right, subculturalism and strain theory)
• Marxism
• Feminism

6.2.7 Strengths and limitations of the different explanations for crime and deviance:
• Age
• Ethnicity
• Gender
• Social class
• Different sociological theories