Sociology
Across
- 4. Any arbitrary action initiated by an authority based on race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than on a person’s behavior
- 7. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired but illegal good and services
- 9. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaged in the same behavior are not
- 11. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation, developing skilled techniques and enjoyed a certain degree of status among other criminals
- 12. Any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society
- 17. Social control that is carried out casually by ordinary people through such means as laughter, smiles, and ridicule
- 18. The works of a group that regulates relations between criminal enterprises involved in illegal activities
Down
- 1. Illegal activity primarily conducted through the use of computer hardware or software
- 2. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society
- 3. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions
- 5. A violation of criminal law for which some government authority applies formal penalties
- 6. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society
- 8. Social control that is carried out by authorized agents, such as police officers, judges, schools administrators, and employers
- 10. Governmental social control
- 13. A set of expectations for people who occupy a given social position or status
- 14. Any number of people with similar norms, values, and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis
- 15. Going along with peers- individuals of our own status, who have no special right to direct our behavior
- 16. A criminal offence committed because of the offender's bias against a race, religion, ethnic groups, national origin, or sexual orientation