Chapter 8 Vocab
Across
- 7. the term for repeated criminal behavior.
- 9. views deviance as a natural outgrowth of the values norms and structure of society.
- 10. proposing that through interaction with others individuals learn the values attitudes techniques and motives for criminal behavior.
- 11. offenses committed by higher social ranked individuals in their professional lives.
- 12. the situation that arises when norms of society are unclear or no longer acceptable.
- 13. the focuses on how people become identified as deviant.
- 15. theory that subject defiance is a learned behavior through interaction with others.
- 17. the process of legal negotiation that allows an accused person to plea guilty to a lesser charge in return for a lighter sentence.
- 19. explains defiance as a natural occurrence.
- 20. a practice assuming a person of different race is likely to commit crime then another race of people.
Down
- 1. one that is labeled defiant and accepts the label as true.
- 2. people suspend their moral beliefs to commit deviant acts.
- 3. behavior that violates significant social norms.
- 4. the power of an officer to decide who is actually arrested.
- 5. a large scale organization of professional criminals that control some vise or business.
- 6. a kind of public setting -like a trial- that the individual is denounced and found guilty where their given the new label of deviant.
- 8. social scientists whom study criminal behavior.
- 14. nonconformity that goes undetected by those in authority.
- 16. a mark of social disgrace that sets a deviant apart from the rest of society.
- 18. an act labeled by authority as prohibited by law.