Vocabulary
Across
- 2. discouraging criminal acts by threatening punishment.
- 4. an idea
- 5. real rather than apparent.
- 6. impulsive, seemingly unmotivated.
- 7. behavior that departs from societal or group norms.
- 9. suitability; correctness.
- 14. unusual, deviant.
- 15. the theory that society creates deviance by identifying particular members as deviant.
- 17. an act committed in violation of the law.
- 21. one's business or profession.
- 23. to quote as an authoritative source.
- 24. punishment intended to make criminals pay monetary compensation to make up for the financial damage caused by their acts.
- 26. behavior that overconforms to social expectations.
- 27. an undesirable label that is used to deny a deviant social acceptance.
- 28. the theory that compliance with social norms requires strong bonds between individuals and society.
- 29. the act of breaking or discarding.
Down
- 1. a method of protecting society from criminals by keeping them in prison.
- 3. behavior that under-conforms to accepted norms.
- 8. rewards or punishments that encourage conformity to social norms.
- 10. the process of changing or reforming a criminal through socialization.
- 11. a person who breaks significant societal or group norms.
- 12. punishment intended to make criminals pay compensation for their acts.
- 13. a repetition of, or return to, criminal behavior.
- 16. the theory that deviance is more likely to occur when a gap exists between cultural goals and the ability to achieve them.
- 18. the opposite of what was previously stated.
- 19. to do, perform, or perpetrate.
- 20. a descriptive term or identification.
- 22. a social condition in which norms are weak, conflicting, or absent.
- 25. pertaining to a racial, religious, national, or other group regarded as different from the larger group of which it is a part.