The Crime and Deviance Channel

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The Channel contains a wide and growing range of Text, PowerPoint, Video and Audio resources designed to enhance the teaching and learning of this module.

You currently get 70 minutes of audio and 90 minutes of video material (including extensive interviews with Senior Examiners) plus up-to-date Text and PowerPoint resources tailored to the A2 Specification that you won't find anywhere else. With more materials constantly being added, can you afford not to subscribe to the Crime and Deviance Channel?.
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Check-Out the Recent Additions:
Video: Crime and the Night-Time Economy (part 1)
Video: Crime and the Night-Time Economy (part 2)
Text: Situational Action Theory
PowerPoint: Situational Action Theory
Text: Globalisation and Crime
Text:Gang Leader for a Day

BBC Prison Study

Last September Alex Haslam and Steve Reicher won the 2009 British Psychology Society’s Annual Award for Excellence in Teaching for their work on the BBC Prison Study. The award recognised “the influence the study has had on the social psychology curriculum and [the researchers'] commitment to supporting psychology teachers”.
Watch Preview Clips from the Prison Study DVD

Catalogue News

Sociology

Lads and Ladettes

Carolyn Jackson's important, contemporary, study links perfectly into the new AS Specification requirement to relate research methods to education.
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Business Studies

Understanding Business Studies

Two exciting new DVDs have been added to this series:
Generating and Protecting Business Ideas and
Legal Structures. Each DVD is available to buy separately (£49.00 + VAT) or, with our existing Enterprise and Entrepreneurs DVD as a 3-DVD Bumper Pack for the bargain price of £120.00 + VAT

Psychology

Core Studies in Psychology

The first three DVDs in this series are now available to buy, priced at £44.00 or £49.00 respectively (+ VAT) each:
1. Baron Cohen on Autism
2. Maguire on Navigation and Human Brain Structure
3. Griffiths on Gambling
Limited Time Offer: All three Core Studies DVDs for just £132.00 (+ VAT)

Bystander Intervention

Bystander Intervention (£44.00 + VAT).
A compelling DVD filmed on location in Liverpool using the James Bulger case to illustrate three key approaches to bystander behaviour:(Darley & Latane; Piliavin and Levine).
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Critical Thinking

This fast-growing AS subject is a new addition to our catalogue and we now have three DVDs available to purchase separately - Assumptions, Credibility and
Evidence in Argument (£44.00 + VAT each) or as a 3-DVD Bumper Pack (£120.00 + VAT).
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Educational video resources for a digital age

Welcome to the Online Classroom web site, where we try to make teachers' lives easier, the classroom more exciting and complex ideas more accessible through our range of informative and innovative video resources.

We Are:

an educational video company specialising in audio visual resources in the humanities subjects. Although OCtv's main video productions have been in AS/A2 Sociology and AS/A2 Psychology, we also produce Business Studies DVDs, Sports Studies DVDs, Health and Social Care DVDs and History DVDs.

Our Aim:

is to help teachers explain key concepts,theories and research methods in a student friendly way. Ideas that span Marxist, Functionalist, Feminist and Postmodern theory, Freudian analysis, the Social Construction of Crime and Deviance, Eye Witness Testimony and much more are illustrated in an accessible way that teachers can easily integrate into their lesson plans. Although designed with UK A level specifications in mind, the DVDs have much wider appeal and are available worldwide

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Alongside our video resources and products, OCtv offers exam advice and free online teaching support resources (including classroom exercises, lesson plans and ideas and downloadable video teaching materials). Our website has accompanying free video clips and previews of all our products.

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Short Cuts 1: Crime and Deviance

Seven programmes on one DVD featuring leading sociologists talking about a range of key concepts in the Sociology of Crime and Deviance.

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Researching Health

“The Researching Health Short Cuts DVDs have been a great boost to my research sessions, upgrading basic research information and supporting higher level students with their research projects. The DVDs place research in a context that ‘keeps it real’, encouraging discussion and reaching students with a variety of learning styles. The review of the main points is particularly useful for applying new concepts to previous work and preparing students for future session.”

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