Questions where students often pick the tempting wrong answer — make sure you know the right one:
Police and courts are an example of:✗ Informal social control✓ Formal social control
Do official statistics record all crime accurately?✗ Yes, statistics capture every crime.✓ No — much crime is unreported or unrecorded (the 'dark figure').
Is crime spread evenly across all social groups?✗ Yes, all groups commit and are caught equally.✓ No — recorded crime and policing vary by class, age, ethnicity and area.
What does the Marxist perspective emphasise?✗ That society runs on shared consensus with no conflict.✓ Conflict between social classes over power and resources.
Practise Crime & Deviance — free games
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