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Theory & Deviance: Crash Course Sociology
Last week we introduced deviance as a concept, but today we’re going return to our major paradigms in sociology and how each approaches deviance. We’ll explore how structural functionalism sees deviance fulfilling a function in society;...
Crash Course
Deviance: Crash Course Sociology
What is social deviance? Who defines what is deviant and how to people come to behave that way? Today we’re going to explore biological and psychological approaches to explaining deviance, including what each perspective can bring to the...
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Masters of Feedback: Kim Cameron - Positive Feedback
Kim Cameron is the founder of Positive Organizational Scholarship. This is the application of the ideas of Positive Psychology, Organizational Design, Citizenship, and much else, at the organizational level. At the heart of his thinking...
The Business Professor
Positive Deviance Model
What is the Positive Deviance Model? Positive deviance is an asset-based improvement approach. At its core is the belief that solutions to problems already exist within communities, and that identifying, understanding, and sharing these...
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A Mythology of Mass Killers
Mass killings (described by the FBI as four or more unlawful killings in a single event) devastate communities and create fear across countries. But if we’re going to begin to understand what makes someone randomly kill large numbers of...
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Policing the Night
This film looks at how social control in the Night-Time Economy of pubs and clubs is increasingly created and maintained by professional Bouncers rather than the police.
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Labelling Theory
Traditionally criminology focused on criminal action and its control. Labelling theory widened the focus to include the social reaction to crime and its consequences. This film documents the rise and fall of labelling theory and...
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Introducing Geographical Offender Profiling
Geographical offender profiling is now being used by police forces around the world to help focus investigations into a connected series of crimes where there are no obvious suspects. This film introduces students to the principles and...
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Geographical Profiling Applied the M25 Rapist
One evening a couple were watching tv when they heard a knock on their front door. On the doorstep was a shivering 10-year-old girl wearing only a t-shirt. She had been snatched from outside a community centre in town and raped. The...
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Crime and Strain Theory
Introduction to the key concepts in Merton's strain theory of crime and deviance
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Hate Crime
Hate Crime is being brought into increasingly-sharp relief with the widespread emergence of new social media such as Twitter, Facebook and Youtube. Neil Chakraborti, a leading researcher on hate crime, outlines some of the problems -...
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Crime and Marxism
Introduction to three of the main themes of Marxist approaches to explaining why people commit crimes
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Crimes of the Powerful
How and why are crimes committed by powerful social actors different from other types of crime? David Whyte explains and examines some of the problems sociologists face in defining and researching the crimes of the powerful.
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Beyond the Bystander Effect
The bystander effect has long been used to explain the general lack of public help towards people who have been harmed, or are at risk of harm. This film looks at more recent research that takes us beyond the bystander effect and...
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Moral Panics
This film examines the concepts of moral panic and deviancy amplification through both a classic - Stan Cohen talking about the origins and implications of his concept in the context of Mods and Rockers in the early 1960ês - and...
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Crime and Realism
An introduction to the key ideas that underpin realist conceptions of crime and deviance:
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Situational Crime Prevention
Can some forms of crime be effectively managed through the control of physical space? Painter and Farringtonês seminal Stoke-on-Trent street-lighting study suggests they can and Kate Painter explains how continuities and changes in the...
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What is Deviant?
5 simple case studies to help students discuss and understand how deviance is socially constructed.
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Crime and Interactionism
Introduction to some of the major themes in Interactionist approaches to crime and deviance:
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Gender and Crime
One of the most consistent features of modern societies is the gendering of crime and criminality. Not only is most crime committed by men, there are also marked differences in the types of crime committed by males and females. Here,...
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The Functions of Crime
The idea crime can have positive consequences for individuals and societies is an important part of Durkheimês sociological analysis of crime and deviance. Steve Taylor explains how crime and deviance can be functional for social order...
Crash Course
Crash Course Sociology #18: Deviance
This video focuses on deviance; it is the 18th episode of the sociology course. What is social deviance? Who defines what is deviant and how to people come to behave that way? The video explores the biological and psychological...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Deviance: Differential Association, Labeling Theory, Strain Theory
This video [6:31] explains the Differential Association Theory which states that deviance is learned through interactions with other deviants. The Strain Theory suggests that deviant behaviors result from a disconnect between a person's...