Write an answer to ONE of the following:
1. Drawing on relevant criminological theory, assess the most likely impacts of economic austerity on crime in the 21st century.
2. Critically assess the extent to which it necessary to understand criminals in order to explain the problem of crime.
3. To what extent is cultural criminology an advance on other forms of critical criminological theorising?
4. To what extent does gender explain crime?
5. What are the most valuable insights to be extracted from the study of the relationships between ethnicity, crime and criminalisation?
6. In what ways does globalisation present a challenge to those committed to explaining crime and deviance?
7. Which is the more useful criminological discovery: a) that crime is concentrated in particular urban areas; or b) that involvement in crime tends to peak during late
adolescence?
8. What might a theoretically-informed ‘public criminology’ look like?
(I have also attached 9 pdf of my lecture slides for you to know what theories were taught in my programme but you are welcome to use any of your own that fits one of the questions)
(for the sources, please use more than 10 so at least around 15)