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Deviance, delinquency and repression
IUFM de Versailles
These lecture notes are from a degree-level course which I gave between 1992 and 1997, for students at the UVSQ. They no longer represent accurately the way I think about crime, but you may find them useful.
Lecture 1 : Introduction. After looking at four cases of behaviour which, although considered normal in the societies in which they are found would be regarded as extremely deviant in our own, we turn to Durkheim's theory of crime.
Lecture 2 : Recording Crime - problems with the official statistics. Is the so-called 'Dark Figure' measurable?
Lecture 3 : Victimization and Self-Report Surveys and what they can tell us about the characteristics of crime and of delinquents.
Lecture 4 : The delinquent psychology and the delinquent career.
Lecture 5 : What factors contribute to the making of the young criminal? Parents and poverty?
Lecture 6 : Schooling and delinquency. Do some schools contribute to the production of crime? What are the characteristics of schools which prevent crime?
Lecture 7 : Delinquency and the wider community. The Chicago school - and after.
Lecture 8 : Class, crime and conflict - the development of policing in England.
Lecture 9 : Age, class and gender - why do the crime statistics suggest that criminals are overwhelmingly young, working-class, males?
Lecture 10 : The gangster and the gang
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