Chapter 13 Crime and the Legal System

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Across
  1. 2. is the violation of norms that a society agrees upon.
  2. 4. ask why people commit crimes, and classicist ask what keeps people from committing them
  3. 8. is a measure that prevents a person from doing something because of fear of the
  4. 10. shame is a permanent label given to an offender
  5. 12. theory argues that criminal cannot resist temptations that surround them.
  6. 13. Minimus are fixed sentences for specific crimes
  7. 14. deviance is the initial deviant act itself.
Down
  1. 1. shaming is an effort to bring an offender back into the community after punishment.
  2. 3. is the violation of norms that have been written into law.
  3. 5. a deliberate effort to attach a negative meaning to behavior.
  4. 6. deterrence is a measure that changes the attitude of individuals, who have already violated the law and have been punished, by causing them never to commit a crime again.
  5. 7. are official police statistics for reported crimes gathered from police reports and paperwork
  6. 9. crime refers to many different types of criminal acts, such as burglary, rape, and assault.
  7. 11. deviance refers to the psychological reorientation that occurs when the system catches a person and labels him or her as a deviant.