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The Crime and Deviance Channel - Contemporary Issues

The 2009 AQA A2 Specification (for first examination in 2010) includes a new section that focuses on a range of contemporary issues in Sociology.

The Crime and Devaince Channel will provide a range of Text, PowerPoint, Video and Audio resources covering topics like Globalisation and Crime; the role of the media; state crimes and green crimes to reflect the content of this new section.

These resources will be made avaialble, as part of the periodic updating of the Channel, in September 2009 in time for the first teaching of this area of the AQA Specification.

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Video: Exam Bytes: Dave Gilmore (part 2)

Thu 17th December 2009

In part 2 of a 3-part interview, Senior Examiner Dave Gilmore looks at changes and continuities in the Crime and Deviance exam paper.

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Video: Exam Bytes: Dave Gilmore (part 3)

Thu 17th December 2009

In part 3 of a 3-part interview, Senior Examiner Dave Gilmore offers some advice and tips on exam preparation.

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Video: Exam Bytes: Fionnuala Swann

Fri 18th December 2009

Fionnuala Swann outlines some of the changes and continuities in the new OCR Crime and Deviance module.

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Video: Moral Panics and Deviancy Amplification

Mon 7th December 2009

Are concepts of Moral Panics and Deviancy Amplification still relevant to contemporary notions of the sociology of crime and deviance? Adrian Beck suggests they are...

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Video: New Technologies and Crime

Fri 11th December 2009

As part of the "New Technologies and Crime" series the focus here is on Crime and the Internet.

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