Investigate the relationship between crime and culture: has crime become a form of commodity in our society? Provide examples to support your answer.

1. Is the theoretical approach elaborated by critical criminology a useful tool to discuss crime and its actors (e.g. perpetrators, victims, criminal justice system)? Critically evaluate the contributions of the field.

2. Investigate the relationship between crime and culture: has crime become a form of commodity in our society? Provide examples to support your answer.

.      3. Critically discuss the value of a gendered reading for our understanding of EITHER criminality OR victimisation.

4. ‘Legitimacy is the very foundation of police authority’. Critically discuss.

5. To what extent can it be argued that westernised capitalist societies are in an epoch of increased punitiveness?