Students enter their initials, battle through 5 timed arcade levels and revise theories of crime, class, gender, ethnicity, globalisation, green crime, state crime, media, surveillance, punishment, victims and the criminal justice system.
Perfect for AQA A-level Sociology Paper 3 revision.
This arcade-style revision quiz is designed for AQA A-level Sociology students studying Crime and Deviance for Paper 3. Students enter their initials like an old-school arcade machine, then work through five timed levels based on the AQA specification: crime, deviance, social order and social control; sociological explanations of crime and deviance; the social distribution of crime by social class, gender and ethnicity; globalisation, media, green crime, human rights and state crime; and crime control, surveillance, prevention, punishment, victims and the criminal justice system. The quiz includes key sociologists and concepts commonly used in AQA Crime and Deviance, including Durkheim, Merton, Cohen, Cloward and Ohlin, Becker, Cicourel, Lemert, Young, Lea and Young, Hall, Chambliss, Gordon, Box, Heidensohn, Carlen, Messerschmidt, Gilroy, Bowling and Phillips, Garland, Foucault, Cohen, Mathiesen, Christie, Walklate, Zemiology, green criminology and state crime.
Crime Boss Battle
AQA A-level Sociology revision for Crime and Deviance. Enter your initials, tackle five research-heavy levels, beat the timer and save your score to the leaderboard.
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This is the harder version of the AQA Crime and Deviance arcade quiz. The answers shuffle every time, so A–D will not follow a predictable pattern.
Each level has 20 research-focused questions and a fresh five-minute timer. The pass mark is now 15 out of 20.
- Level 1: Functionalism, strain, subcultures and interactionism
- Level 2: Marxism, class, realism and crimes of the powerful
- Level 3: Gender, ethnicity, age and measuring crime
- Level 4: Globalisation, media, green crime and state crime
- Level 5: Control, surveillance, punishment, victims and CJS
5 levels. 100 questions. 5 minutes per level. Answers shuffle A–D each time.
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