Links: Crime and Deviance: www.sociology.org.uk

Alcohol, Drugs and Society	Lecture notes (including some interesting video links) from the prolific Robert Keel that look at various aspects of drug use and abuse. Although the evidential focus is on American society there's enough sociological interpretation / analysis here to make this a useful general site for A-level teachers.
Bowling For Columbine	Based around the Michael Moore film, the Teacher's Guide section of the site offers a range of materials on a variety of topics (family, education, media and so forth) related to the film. In this particular instance, questions about "Terrorism" are developed through an article, questions and activities designed to get students thinking about what, when and by whom terrorism can be so labelled. This activity is, however, merely one small part of the site and a full Teacher's Guide can be downloaded from the site (or by clicking the picture on this page).
British Journal of Criminology	Not a particularly useful site unless you already subscribe to the Journal. If you're a subscriber, there's articles to download from the journal (which, presumably, you've already got in printed format?) and...err...that's it really. If you're not a subscriber you can view short summaries ("abstracts") of available articles - which may be useful at A-Level since the articles themselves are mainly undergraduate level.
Cecil Greek	A crazy name for a crazy guy and it's a bit of a mystery to me as to why I've overlooked this site for so long (unless, of course, I've listed it elsewhere and simply forgotten about it...). There's a load of free on-site materials relating to, amongst other things, crime and the media. A related site provides a range of lecture notes on various theories of deviance (Functionalist, Ecological and Interactionist, among others). These are well-worth perusing and just go to show you shouldn't always beware Greeks bearing gifts (oh dear...).
Crime Reduction	Part of the Home Office site (now archived, so it will probably not be updated any more), this focuses, as the more astute may have guessed, on government initiatives to reduce / prevent crime. Teachers and students can find up-to-date material here and the "Crime Reduction Toolkits" are worth having a look at for the information (Official Statistics, British Crime Survey statistics, the fear of crime among many other things) they contain on areas such as rural crime, burglary and vehicle crime. As an added bonus there's a good range of links to a variety of "crime control" web sites.
Crimestoppers UK	An "Independent charity" site that specialises in passing-on anonymous information about crime to the police. As such it raises interesting questions about areas of crime - the ethics and effectiveness of this type of "crime prevention" and so forth - that can be used as the focus of classroom debate about a multitude of crime-related topics (plus, there's the added bonus of being able to check to see if any of your students feature in the "Most Wanted" category).
Criminology Interactive	This is a bit of a weird one in the sense that it's something put-out by a major American publisher (Pearson), refers to an "interactive disk" and looks / sounds like something for which you're expected to pay - yet here it is on the web in all its glorious freeness. Be that as it may, the "Interactive Experience" is designed to teach you about criminology and to do this it uses a big wodge of video (of the cheapo variety - Professors on sofas talking about things. This is generally okay but it gets a bit repetitive and ever-so-slightly dull after a while), plus assorted web pages (a kind of extended reading) and interactive tests and games - which mainly seem to be variations on drag-and-drop). This whole thing is interesting but probably flawed - the interface is over-complicated for what's on offer (but on the other hand if it's free - at least for the moment - why not give it a try?).
Home Office	If you're searching for UK crime statistics, this is the obvious place to start. There's a range of statistics available - including both the latest official crime variety and the British Crime Survey results. The latter, for example, can be downloaded (in Adobe pdf format) and is an incredibly-useful 100-page summary of the latest BCS findings. The site also breaks crime statistics down into various smaller categories (violence, theft, etc.) and contains a number of helpful links to other crime-related sites.
Jock Young	This is a collection of Jock Young articles (mainly in pdf format) on a wide range of topics - from the principles behind Left Realism through an overview / critique of models of criminology to victim studies (and all points in between). As you might expect, since these are academic articles many of them are hard-going for A-level students - but for teachers wanting to either refresh their knowledge about Young's work or introduce their students to some of the nuances of that work this site is an invaluable source.
John Lea	Designed to support the courses (in criminology) Lea teaches, this site contains a wealth of lecture notes, articles and links that can be easily adapted to the needs of A-level students / teachers.
Libertarianism	An American (what else?) site extolling the joys of "small government, militant individualism and the right to shoot people dead if they look at you in a funny way" (I made that last bit up). If you're looking to introduce New Right ideas about such things as decriminalisation, freedom of speech and the relationship between the State and the Individual, the "Government Doesn't Work: A Lesson in Libertarianism" essay might be helpful in bringing the topic to life (or death). There's also a short piece on "social deviance" that's probably worth a bit of discussion.
Sociological Theories of Deviance	In basic terms, this site offers a range of notes on a variety of theories of deviance (from Classical sociology to Radical Criminology and all points in between...). The notes aren't particularly extensive (probably because they're designed to be...err...notes) but they are useful for A-level students, even though the basic level is aimed at American University students (I would guess).
The Sociology of Deviance	Another site from the prolific Robert Keel which aims to provide a basic Introduction to the sociology of deviance. At root, the site consists of a set of notes that focus on the questions "What is deviance?" and "Who are deviants?". The notes contain a number of hyperlinks that take you to more in-depth analyses, but overall the notes are probably aimed at a slightly higher level than AS / A2.