Lakayda Early - Chapter 7

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Across
  1. 6. the process of reducing the seriousness of the crimes that injure pepople of lower status
  2. 9. behavior that overconforms to social expectations
  3. 11. job-related crimes commited by high-ststus people
  4. 14. deviant=ce that becomes a lifestyle and part of an induviduals indentify
  5. 15. a system comprising institutions and processes responsible for enforcing criminal statutes
  6. 16. behavior that departs from societal or group norms
  7. 17. ways to encourage conformity to societys norms
  8. 18. the theory that deviance is more likely to occur when a gap exsist between cultural goals and the ability to achieve them
Down
  1. 1. the theory that individuals learn deviance in proportion to the number of deviant acts and norms to which they are exposed
  2. 2. the theory that society creates deviance by identifying particualr memebers as deviant
  3. 3. a social condition in which norma are weal, conflicting, or absent
  4. 4. a person who breaks significant societal or group norms
  5. 5. rewards or punsishments that encourage conformity to social norms
  6. 7. discounting criminal acts by threatning punishment
  7. 8. an act commmited in violation of the law
  8. 10. behavior that underconforms to accepted norms
  9. 12. the theory that compliance wiht social norma requires strong bonds between indiduals and society
  10. 13. punishment intended to make criminals pay compensation for their acts
  11. 14. undesireable label used to deny a deviant acceptance