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GCSE Sociology · key term
An act that breaks the criminal law and can be punished by the state.
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Paper 1, Paper 2
An act that breaks criminal law and is punishable by the state.
Revise: Social Construction of Crime and DevianceCrime is an act that breaks criminal law and is punishable by the state. Shoplifting, for example, is a crime. Deviance is behaviour that breaks the norms or expectations of a social group or society.
Behaviour that breaks criminal law and can be punished by the state.
Distinguish crime, which breaks criminal law, from deviance, which breaks social norms. Behaviour can be deviant without being criminal.
Distinguish recorded crime from all crime. Differences in reporting, detection and policing can affect official statistics.
Do not treat class, gender, ethnicity or age as automatic causes of crime, or assume that everyone in a social group behaves alike.
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An illegal act punishable by law.
An act that breaks the law.
Component 2
An act that breaks criminal law and can lead to criminal proceedings and punishment by the state.
Revise: Concept of CrimeA crime is an act that breaks criminal law and can lead to criminal proceedings and punishment by the state. Shoplifting, robbery and identity theft are examples. Their defining feature is not just that people disapprove of them: they break laws that the state can enforce.
An act that breaks the law.
An act that breaks the law and is punishable by the state.
An act that breaks the law and can result in criminal proceedings.
Behaviour that breaks the law.
