1. Crime, social class and locality
Starter: According to official statistics, which social class is more likely to commit crime?
Challenge: Suggest reasons why the official statistics may be inaccurate
Ethnicity
Labelling
Institutional racism
explain the patterns in the relationship between social class, locality and crime

2. Crime & Social Class Revise your reading notes on
Crime and Social Class
Revise your reading notes on
Crime, social class and locality
Crime & Social Class
Highlight key points
Circle key concepts
Transform your notes into a diagram
5 mins

3. Revising social class across sociology
Crime and Social Class
Create a concept map
Revising social class across sociology
Crime
Families
Social Class
-key trends
-concepts
20mins
Education
Definitions
Extension: are there any themes/connections that run throughout?

4. Revising social class across sociology
Crime and Social Class
Create a concept map
Revising social class across sociology
Extended family
Cultural capital
Material deprivation
White collar
Labelling
Socialisation
Subculture
Marxist view
Streaming
Skilled/disconnected local choosers
Democratic/
Authoritarian parenting
Material deprivation
Cultural deprivation
Male dominated/ patriarchal

5. Quiz
The number of employees killed at work every year due to negligence:
A) 500
B) 200
C) 100
In your opinion is this a crime? Should the person in charge be punished?
The Answer is A

6. Question 2 The answer is C
There are more working class than middle class prisoners. Last count showed that there were:
A) twice the number are working class
B) 3 times the number are working class
C) 4 times the number are working class
The answer is C

7. True or False
The reason why there are more working class people in prison is because middle class people do not commit crime.
True
False
The answer is False – there are many reasons why the prison population is mostly working class.

8. Crime and Social Class

9. Crime and Social Class Key questions/debates?
Do working class people commit more crime and deviance than middle class people?
Why are white collar and corporate crimes underrepresented in the crime statistics?

10. Crime and Social Class Tasks to complete
Knowledge -
What sort of crimes are committed by working class people?
What is the term for crime committed by people in ‘high-status’ positions?
Understanding-
Why might w/c people be more likely to commit crime?
Why might m/c people be under represented in the prison system?
Application
Read the case study on Jordan Belfort - the Wolf of Wall Street - summarise his crime in a few sentences
Analysis
What is the difference between white collar and corporate crime?
Why does there appear to be more crime in urban rather than rural areas?

11. Crime and Social Class
Discuss how far sociologists would agree that most criminal behaviour is caused by poverty and social deprivation. (12 marks)
For
Against

12. Crime and Social Class Plenary
Are crime statistics saying ethnic minorities are more likely to commit crime accurate?
1 reason “yes”
1 reason “no”

13. Crime and Social Class Homelearning
Revision on studying society, families, education
MOCK in class 3rd November