Criminal Justice, Chapter three Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Communities with high population turnover rates, diverse populations, and poverty are more likely to experience high levels of crime due to weakened social bonds.
  2. 5. The argument that people are most likely to engage in criminal behavior if they have traits associated with crime.
  3. 8. Identifies the pervasive influence of patriarchy and masculinist norms on legal structures and demonstrates their effects on the material conditions.
  4. 10. Proposal that pressure derived from social factors, such as lack of income or lack of quality education, drives individuals to commit crime.
  5. 11. A genetic crime modification theory engaged by adding an extra x chromosome.
  6. 12. A city, county, and state law enforcement program which provides a nationwide view of crime based on the submission. of statistics by law enforcement agencies throughout the country.
  7. 13. Suggests that criminal justice interventions amplify offending behavior.
  8. 14. Emphasizes that crime occurs when three elements converge: (1) a motivated offender, (2) a suitable target, and (3) the absence of a capable guardian.
  9. 15. Posits that individuals, as rational actors, commit crimes based on cost-benefit analysis, emphasizing deterrence and individual rights.
  10. 17. Are human-made laws that oblige or specify an action.
  11. 18. proposes that people's relationships, commitments, values, norms, and beliefs encourage them not to break the law.
  12. 19. Consensus paradigm as law that has a unifying force in society.
  13. 21. Score only the highest ranking offense, and ignore all others, regardless of the. number of offenders and victims.
Down
  1. 1. Crime in any society is caused by class conflict and that laws are created by those in power to protect their rights and interests.
  2. 2. A school of thought that presents criminal behavior as the result of individual circumstances and rational thought and places crime outside of the framework of society.
  3. 4. The act or process of modifying an object to render it suitable for a particular or new purpose or situation.
  4. 6. An incident-based reporting system for crimes known to the police.
  5. 7. Collects information on nonfatal personal crimes and household properties crimes.
  6. 9. Focuses on the settings where crime occurs, rather than on those committing specific criminal acts.
  7. 16. Law is a discipline often associated with constructivist teaching.
  8. 20. A measure of change in recorded crime, over a given period of time, based upon official statistics for offences or offender rates.