Course: Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods

Crime and Deviance

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.

Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods