WJEC Level 3 Applied Certificate & Diploma Criminology sample

AC3.1 ANALYSE SITUATIONS OF CRIMINALITY ‘working as a nanny for a top lawyer in London’ ‘She was never very interested in school where her teachers told her she would end up in a dead-end job’ Read the scenario below and consider possible causes of Paul’s offending. Discuss your answers with a partner. Paul, aged 25, has been unemployed since leaving school at 16. His father and two older brothers have all been to prison, but so far Paul has not been convicted of any crime. His girlfriend is moaning about not having a nice house and holidays like her friends. Paul is very prone to depression as a result of his car accident two years ago, when he received head injuries. Last week, in an attempt to put some excitement into his dull life, Paul took part in an armed robbery of a local post of ce. However, he was subsequently arrested and is now on remand in prison. Activity Create your own scenarios with behaviour that could relate to the criminological theories. This will help you understand how the criminological theories can apply to situations of criminality. Take it further Interactionism/ labelling theory where a self-fulfilling prophecy appears to be happening. Her employer represents the ruling class (bourgeois – Marxism) and she will feel relative deprivation when she compares her life to her employer’s family, according to a left realism approach. 113