Social Construction of Crime and Deviance

Explain the social construction of concepts of crime and deviance.
Describe and explain various sociological explanations of crime and deviance, including anomie, labelling, structural theories, subcultural theories, and interactionist theory.
Compare and contrast interactionist, functionalist, feminist, and Marxist perspectives on the social construction of crime and deviance.
Describe the key ideas of Robert Merton on the causes of crime from a functionalist perspective.
Describe the key ideas of Howard Becker on the causes of crime from an interactionist perspective.

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