CRIME AND SOCIETY

CRIME AND SOCIETY
YEAR OF COURSE ONE
TIME ALLOWED TWO HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Answer ONE question from Section A and ONE question from Section B.
Number your answers clearly, e.g. B5.
Write each answer in a separate answer book.
No. of Pages 2
No. of Questions 10
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SECTION A (Answer ONE question from this section)
1 “The concept of the juvenile offender, with all that implies for penal policy, is a
Victorian creation” (Radzinowicz, 1990). Discuss.
2 Why was so much social protest effectively criminalised by the nineteenth
century?
3 Why is the concept of the ‘criminal underworld’ a problematic one for historians
of crime?
4 Assess the claim that violence has declined in Western society.
5 How great a problem was prostitution for the authorities of eighteenth and
nineteenth century England.
SECTION B (Answer ONE question from this section)
6 What light does sociological theory shed on the ‘drugs problem’?
7 Compare and contrast any two theoretical approaches to violent crime.
8 Examine the view that domestic violence has been constructed and processed as
non-crime?
9 Evaluate social responses to rape.
10 How are we to understand ‘crimes of the state’?
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