The Crime and Deviance Channel - Power and Control

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Audio: Consensual Control

Mon 26th January 2009

What we can learn about social control in contemporary society from a visit to Disney World?

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Audio: Durkheim and Social Order

Mon 26th January 2009

Why do we still teach Durkheim?
Here we suggest why by looking at the continuing relevance of two of his key concepts.

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Audio: Foucault on Surveillance

Mon 26th January 2009

Foucault’s view of disciplinary power and surveillance made accessible by Professor Clive Norris

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Audio: Right Realism vs. Edgework

Mon 26th January 2009

The Talking Points podcasts introduce students to important debates within the Sociology of Crime and Deviance and in this podcast Steve Taylor outlines the different takes on criminality contained in Right Realism and the concept of edgework.

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PowerPoint Slides

Mon 26th January 2009

A set of high quality PowerPoint slides designed to display key ideas and concepts relating to Power and Social Control.

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PowerPoint: Right Realism vs. Edgework

Sat 21st March 2009

PowerPoint presentation based around the "Right Realism vs. Edgework" podcast.

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PowerPoint: Surveillance

Thu 26th March 2009

PowerPoint presentation based around the Foucault on Surveillance podcast.

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Text: Power and Control

Mon 26th January 2009

Power and Control is a pdf file that provides information for students and teachers (in textbook format) on Traditional and New Penology, Right Realist and Left Realist perspectives.

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Updates: Recent Research

Thu 2nd April 2009

The key points of Call the (Fashion) Police: How fashion becomes criminalised by James Treadwell (2008) are identified, summarised and related to the Crime and Deviance Specification.

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Updates: The Spirit Level

Fri 2nd October 2009

Wilkinson and Pickett's (2009) analysis of the relationship between social inequality and social problems has implications for crime and deviance that are outlined in this Update.

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