Vocabulary 3
Across
- 2. a neoclassical perspective that suggests that lifestyles contribute significantly to both the amount and the type of crime found in any society
- 4. a condition said to exist when a group is faced with social change, uneven development of culture, maladaptiveness, disharmony, conflict, and lack of consensus
- 6. the attempt to categorize, understand, and predict the behavior of certain types of offenders based on behavioral clues they provide
- 7. a perspective on crime causation that holds that the physical deterioration of an area leads to higher crime rates and an increased concern for personal safety among residents
- 8. a sociological approach that emphasizes demographics and geographics and that sees the social disorganization that characterizes delinquency areas as a major cause of criminality and victimization
- 10. an 18th century approach to crime causation and criminal responsibility that grew out of the Enlightenment and that emphasized the role of freewill and reasonable punishment
- 11. a human male displaying the XYY chromosome structure
- 15. a set of interrelated propositions that attempt to describe, explain, predict, and ultimately control some class of events
- 18. a perspective on crime causation that holds that criminality is the result of conscious choice
- 20. an approach that integrates a variety of theoretical viewpoints in an attempt to explain something such as crime and violence
- 21. perspective on criminal logical thought that holds that criminal behavior has a physiological basis
- 22. the belief that an area's physical features may be modified and structured so as to reduce crime rates in that area and to lower fear of victimization that residents experience
- 25. a mentally ill individual who suffers from disjointed thinking and possibly from delusions and hallucinations
- 26. a person with a personality disorder, especially one manifested in aggressively antisocial behavior, which is often said to be the result of a poorly developed superego
- 27. the classification of human beings into types according to body build and other physical characteristics
Down
- 1. an integrated view of human development that points to the process of interaction among and between individuals and society as the root calls of criminal behavior
- 3. a psychological perspective that says that people learn how to behave by modeling themselves after others whom they have the opportunity to observe
- 5. an explanation that accounts for a set of facts and that can be tested by further investigation
- 9. a theory of human behavior, based on the writings of Sigmund Freud, that sees personality as a complex composite of interacting mental entities
- 12. a form of mental illness in which sufferers are said to be out of touch with reality
- 13. one of the emerging approaches that challenges existing criminal logical perspectives to debunk them and that works toward replacing them with concepts more applicable to the post-modern era
- 14. an approach to criminal justice theory that stresses the application of scientific techniques to the study of crime and criminals
- 16. a perspective on criminal logical thought that highlights the process of interaction between individuals and society
- 17. a violation of social norms defining appropriate or proper behavior under a particular set of circumstances
- 19. a socially pervasive condition of normlessness
- 23. a social process perspective that sees continued crime as a consequence of the limited opportunities for acceptable behavior that follow from the negative responses of society to those defined as offenders
- 24. the use of standardized, systematic procedures in the search for knowledge