Criminology – Unit 1 Controlled Assessment

IT AUDIT As part of the preparation for Controlled Assessments, teachers may wish to give some thought to how comfortable students are in terms of their familiarity with all things IT. This is particularly important for the planning and design elements of AC3.1, AC3.2 and AC3.3 where it may sometimes be assumed that students have […]

Criminology Unit 1 – Learning Outcome 2

Subject dividers / content cards Learning outcome 2 (LO2) requires students to understand how campaigns are used to elicit change. There are TWO assessment criteria AC2.1 – Compare campaigns for change AC2.2 – Evaluate the effectiveness of media used in campaigns for change

UK – Summer 2024 Riots

In August 2024, the United Kingdom experienced a wave of far-right protests and riots that spanned various cities, including Southport, London, Manchester, and Belfast. The unrest occurred from July 30th to August 5th, 2024. Unrest began in Southport, where protestors attacked Southport Mosque. False claims circulated by far-right groups suggested that the perpetrator of a […]

wildland

‘Wildland’A Journey Through a Divided Country Bloomsbury (2nd ed 2022) pp476 pages This is a study of the origins and effects of the failure of the mythology of the United States. The failure, as this book explains, lies more deeply than the grotesque political theatre of Washington but in the peripheries of the country, from […]

Anomie

Anomie is a state of normlessness or a breakdown of social norms and values. This concept was introduced by the key sociologist Émile Durkheim (1858-1917). Anomie occurs when there is a disintegration or disappearance of the norms and values that were previously common to society and helped to bind that society together. How to recognise […]