Crime Puzzle
Across
- 2. crime crime committed by people of high social position in the course of their occupations
- 9. the attempt to discourage criminality through punishment
- 10. "crimes" violations of law in which there are no readily apparent victims
- 13. the violation of society's formally enacted into criminal law X
- 14. crimes against the person that direct violence or the threat of violence against others
- 15. "protection" a means by which society renders an offender incapable of further offenses temporarily through incarceration or permanently by execution
- 17. subsequent offenses by people previously convicted of crimes
- 18. a legal negotiation in which a prosecutor reduces a charge in exchange for a defendant's guilty plea
- 19. theory the idea that deviance and conformity result not only from what people do but from how others respond to those actions
- 20. a program for reforming the offender to prevent subsequent offenses
Down
- 1. crimes that involve theft of property belonging to others
- 3. "crime" the illegal actions of a corporation or people acting on its behalf
- 4. a criminal act against a person or person's property by an offender motivated by racial or other bias
- 5. the recognized violation of cultural norms
- 6. attempts by society to regulate people's thought and behavior
- 7. an act of moral vengeance by which society inflicts suffering on the offender comparable to that caused by the offense
- 8. "of deviance" the transformation of moral and legal deviance into a medical condition
- 11. a powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person's self-concept and social identity
- 12. criminal system, the formal response by police, courts, and prison officials to alleged violations of the law
- 16. "crime" a business supplying illegal goods or services