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Social class (Crime)
Social class is an identity based on shared socio-economic status. Different sociologists approach class in different ways, with traditional Marxists focusing on the bourgeoisie and the proletariat and their differing relationship to the means of production; and other sociologists considering class stratification more in relation to job roles and incomes. Sociologists are interested in why people from some social classes are more likely to commit crimes than others and also why the types of crime that people from different classes are likely to commit differ significantly. Working-class individuals are more likely to commit crime than middle-class individuals; middle-class crimes are more likely to be things like fraud or tax evasion (see white-collar crime) compared with increased likelihood of theft or violent crime for those with lower incomes.
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Corporate Crime - Social Class and Crime
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White Collar Crime - Social Class and Crime
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Weberian Views of Stratification
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BBC Woman's Hour: Remembering the victims of Peter Sutcliffe
23rd November 2020
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What is stop and search and what are my rights?
25th August 2020
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Podcast Recommendation: Hometown - A Killing
8th July 2020
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What does it mean to defund the police? – video
2nd July 2020
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Prison Consultants
4th March 2020
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Modern Day Slavery (2)
31st January 2020
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Modern Day Slavery
27th January 2020
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Sleeping Rough in the UK
20th January 2020
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London Knife Crime
13th November 2019
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The Ultimate Bumper Crime & Deviance Revision Quiz!
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Money Laundering
14th May 2019
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MP Expenses - 10 years on
5th April 2019
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Dangerous Cities
7th February 2019
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Theories of Crime - Impossible 5 Revision Activity
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The American Dream
12th November 2018
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Statistics on Social Class and Crime
Study Notes
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White-Collar Crime
29th May 2018
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Was Marx right?
17th May 2018
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Gangs
16th May 2018
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Poverty in the UK
11th April 2018
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The Best Teacher in the World
2nd April 2018
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The Joy of Podcasts: Education - Grammar Schools
27th March 2018
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Bradford Unemployment
21st February 2018
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White Working Class Men
16th January 2018
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Educational Divide
10th January 2018
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Cultural Capital: 11+ Tests
12th December 2017
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Tackling Social Mobility
7th December 2017
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Classical Marxist Approaches to Crime
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The Paradise Papers
15th November 2017
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Social Class and Oxbridge
13th November 2017
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Nostalgia and Sociology
31st October 2017
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Sociologist in Focus: Charles Murray
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Teaching Sociological Skills: Application from an Item (2)
12th October 2017
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Making Demography Come to Life
18th October 2017
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Sociologist in Focus: Antonio Gramsci (2)
13th October 2017
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Teaching Sociological Skills: Application from an Item (1)
11th October 2017
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Sociologist in Focus: Antonio Gramsci (1)
6th October 2017
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Teaching Sociological Skills: Analysis (2)
28th September 2017
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Women in Poverty
25th September 2017
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Prince George's first day at school...
21st September 2017
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Living below the Poverty Line: Summer Lunch Clubs
8th September 2017
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Modern Day Slavery
30th August 2017
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Six social classes: Which are you?
23rd August 2017