Chapter 7 Vocab, Kassidy Bower
Across
- 1. Punishment intended to make criminals pay compensation for their act.
- 3. Ways to encourage conformity to society's norms.
- 4. Process of reducing the seriousness of the crimes that injure people of a lower status.
- 7. System compromising institutions and processes responsible for enforcing criminal statues.
- 11. Rewards or punishments that encourage conformity to social norms.
- 13. Theory that individuals learn deviance in proportion to the number of deviant acts and norms in which they are exposed.
- 15. Theory that society creates deviance by identifying particular members as deviant.
- 16. Theory that deviance is more likely to occur when a gap exists between cultural goals and the ability to achieve them.
- 18. Behavior that over conforms to accepted norms.
- 19. Deviance in which an individual's life and identity are organized around breaking society's norms.
- 20. A person who breaks significant societal/group norms.
- 21. An undesirable label that is used to deny a deviant social acceptance.
- 23. Theory that compliance with social norms requires strong bonds between individuals and society.
- 24. A repetition of, or return to, criminal behavior.
Down
- 2. A method of protecting society from criminals by keeping them in prison.
- 5. Discouraging criminal acts by threatening punishment.
- 6. Behavior that departs from group norms.
- 8. Behavior that under conforms to accepted norms.
- 9. Job related crimes committed by high-status people.
- 10. A social condition in which norms are weak, conflicting, or absent.
- 12. Deviance involving occasional breaking of norms, this is not a part of a person's lifestyle.
- 14. Punishment intended to make criminals pay monetary compensation to make up for financial damage caused by their act.
- 17. Process of changing or reforming a criminal through socialization.
- 22. An act committed in violation of the law.