QUESTION 1

(a) Evaluate the central ideas of the conflict approach to criminality and deviance

(b) In what ways are social and cultural conflicts involved in the definition and control of criminality and deviance?

(c) Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the conflict theory in explaining criminality and deviance

QUESTION 2

a) Assess the sociological explanations of gender differences on patterns of crime

b) Evaluate the feminist explanations of why women are victims of crime

QUESTION 3

a) Define and discuss higher and lower consensus deviance

b) Give two examples of each type of deviance

c) Why does the public often disagree over whether a form of deviance is higher or lower?

QUESTION 4

a) Evaluate the view that deviance exists only in the mind of the observer

b) Postmodernism emerged in the early twentieth century to question the basic values of modernism and has become a new theoretical perspective in sociology and criminology. (Thio, 2010) Identify and explain two ways in which postmodernism has increased our understanding of sociology and criminology