Criminal Justice, Chapter three Crossword
Across
- 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.
- 5. The argument that people are most likely to engage in criminal behavior if they have traits associated with crime.
- 8. Identifies the pervasive influence of patriarchy and masculinist norms on legal structures and demonstrates their effects on the material conditions.
- 10. Proposal that pressure derived from social factors, such as lack of income or lack of quality education, drives individuals to commit crime.
- 11. A genetic crime modification theory engaged by adding an extra x chromosome.
- 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.
- 13. Suggests that criminal justice interventions amplify offending behavior.
- 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.
- 15. Posits that individuals, as rational actors, commit crimes based on cost-benefit analysis, emphasizing deterrence and individual rights.
- 17. Are human-made laws that oblige or specify an action.
- 18. proposes that people's relationships, commitments, values, norms, and beliefs encourage them not to break the law.
- 19. Consensus paradigm as law that has a unifying force in society.
- 21. Score only the highest ranking offense, and ignore all others, regardless of the. number of offenders and victims.
Down
- 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. 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.
- 4. The act or process of modifying an object to render it suitable for a particular or new purpose or situation.
- 6. An incident-based reporting system for crimes known to the police.
- 7. Collects information on nonfatal personal crimes and household properties crimes.
- 9. Focuses on the settings where crime occurs, rather than on those committing specific criminal acts.
- 16. Law is a discipline often associated with constructivist teaching.
- 20. A measure of change in recorded crime, over a given period of time, based upon official statistics for offences or offender rates.