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SOC 322 Sociology of Crime and Delinquency I

300 levelSocial Sciences10 topics

SOC 322 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. The nature of deviance
  2. The concept of crime
  3. Types and classification of crime
  4. The classical school of criminology
  5. The biological school and positivism
  6. Psychological perspectives on crime
  7. Sociogenic (sociological) theories of crime
  8. Juvenile delinquency
  9. Measurement of crime
  10. Crime and delinquency in Nigeria

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

The nature of deviance

The nature of deviance centres on what deviance means, how it differs from crime, and why behaviour becomes labelled as unacceptable in society. For the exam, you must master deviance as a social concept shaped by norms, values, time, place, and power, because many questions test definition, characteristics, and examples.

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