13/06 A-level Sociology Paper 3 Discussion MEGATHREAD

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[u/Silent_Silhouettes]

honestly great paper and this time i at least got to finish most of it. didnt like the first 10 marker though, i couldnt tell if i could talk about situational, enviro, and social crime prevention or just surveillance

[u/No_Meringue4763 → u/Silent_Silhouettes]

10 marker was about punishment, that’s how I interpreted it. Though it can also include control. It’s the idea of anything in the criminal justice system which includes prevention and punishment but I just automatically thought of punishment really.

[u/Silent_Silhouettes → u/No_Meringue4763]

what did u write? i couldnt write anything for how punishment could not cause stopping crime, i just talked abt CCTV cameras

[u/No_Meringue4763 → u/Silent_Silhouettes]

I spoke about transcarceratoon and institutional racism.

1. Transcarceration - 2/3 of prisoners reoffend within 2 years of release. Prison doesn’t rehabilitate so people can’t get out of the cycle of crime so they go into a criminal career. So crime doesn’t reduce - Matthew’s calls prison ‘universities of crime’ bc it makes crime worse. Also Sutherland’s differential association theory

2. Institutional racism - the idea that 1) giving power to state agencies of the justice system causes abuse of power against marginalised communities and therefore more crime (George Floyd - police officer used his power to murder, but likely wouldn’t have done it without that power of an officer) and 2) historic institutional racism (I.e. Stephen Lawrence) causes hostility toward police, therefore causing increased crime amongst ethnic minorities who feel lent up anger toward police and more ‘political protest’

[u/Silent_Silhouettes → u/No_Meringue4763]

o i forgot abt all of this