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