AQA A Level Sociology Paper 3: Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods June 2024 question paper 7192/3

Outline two reasons why punishment may not be effective in controlling crime.

Outline three reasons for ethnic differences in patterns of crime.

Read Item A below and answer the question that follows.

Applying material from Item A, analyse two ways that social control may explain gender differences in patterns of crime.

Read Item B below and answer the question that follows.

Applying material from Item B and your knowledge, evaluate the contributions of realist explanations of crime.

Outline and explain two reasons why some sociologists choose to use official statistics in their research.

Read Item C below and answer the question that follows.

Applying material from Item C and your knowledge, evaluate the extent to which Sociology can be regarded as scientific.