Deviance, Crime & Violence (ASE 4e)

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Across
  1. 2. Connections and attachments to people and institutions in mainstream society.
  2. 6. Theory that the inequality in a society, not just the presence of poverty, predicts how much crime and violence there will be.
  3. 11. Ways societies try to influence members’ behavior to maintain social order.
  4. 12. A functionalist theory that describes five adaptations to strain: conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion.
  5. 14. Number of homicides per 100,000 residents.
  6. 15. When a deviant subculture’s nearness and norms encourage and allow delinquency.
  7. 16. Stress that results from a mismatch between goals and means.
  8. 18. Written laws that govern behavior in a particular jurisdiction.
  9. 19. Theory that claims deviance arises from a weakening of social connections.
  10. 20. Act that violates the penal code.
  11. 21. Violent crimes and property crimes that are more common in public spaces and often involve the police.
  12. 22. Overheated, short-lived periods of intense social concern about an issue. ᇟ
  13. 26. Behaviors that violate social norms.
  14. 28. Theory that deviance is created through reactions to an act.
  15. 30. Set of shared values, beliefs, and understandings about how the world should be.
  16. 33. A social movement focused on ending police violence against Black people and working against racial injustice generally.
  17. 36. The idea that the United States has a unique heritage in which settlers had to resort to violence to protect their property and themselves, creating a longstanding norm of violent behavior.
  18. 38. Functionalist theory that says delinquency is a function of opportunity and access to delinquent behavior.
  19. 39. Set of beliefs, values, and assumptions we use to view and understand the world.
  20. 40. Study of crime and criminal behavior.
Down
  1. 1. Theft that doesn’t involve the use of direct physical force.
  2. 3. Strategy to reduce crime through the design of buildings and physical space.
  3. 4. Group of people linked together in a specific way.
  4. 5. Theory that deviance is learned through intimate personal contacts.
  5. 7. Theory of policing that argues that small signs of disorder lead to outbreaks of more serious crimes.
  6. 8. The expansion of imprisonment to the highest level in the world or in U.S. history.
  7. 9. Norms about customs, traditions, and etiquette.
  8. 10. Theories that focus on potential social purposes that deviance serves.
  9. 11. Degree to which we identify with and maintain social rules and connections.
  10. 13. Crimes like fraud, embezzlement, and other unethical acts or business practices that are typically not carried out on the street or in public spaces and don’t use physical force.
  11. 17. Theories that ask about how rules and norms are shaped by power relations in society.
  12. 23. People who try to influence societies toward increased awareness of and concern over the violation of social norms.
  13. 24. A person who violates the penal code.
  14. 25. A feeling of falling behind while other people do better and better. Merton argued that this feeling creates strain, leading to crime.
  15. 27. Asocial lack of morals and expectations for behavior that can lead to deviance.
  16. 29. More seriously protected norms that reflect the morals and values of a social group.
  17. 31. Accepted and expected behavior.
  18. 32. Crimes like homicide, robbery, assault, and sexual assault, which involve the use of physical force.
  19. 34. Most seriously protected norms; formal (usually written) and enforced by the government.
  20. 35. Type of domination in which the powerful obtain the consent or support of the subordinated
  21. 37. A phenomenon in which a person is discredited and/or rejected by society because of an attribute they have.