Across
- 3. approach to crime that is grounded in the concept of rational choice but that views the accused
- 5. Theory that describes criminal behavior as a natural outcome of peoples desire to seek pleasure in the absence of effective social controls
- 6. Theory that argues criminal behavior is caused by feelings of stain
- 8. Theory that explains crime as an outcome of conflicting interests between groups in society
- 11. Perspective indicating that people have free will to choose between criminal behavior
- 13. Argument that people are most likely to engage in criminal behavior if they have traits associated with crime
- 14. # of reported crimes divided by the population of the jurisdiction
- 17. Theory that explains how gender inequality affects female offending and justice system responses to crimes committed by females
- 19. Survey of U.S households that measures crimes committed against victims
- 20. Published annually by the FBI
- 21. Crime reporting system which police describe each offence that occurs during a crime event
Down
- 1. School of thought that argues science can be used to discover the true causes of crime
- 2. Criminology research that looks at weather adopted children share criminal tendencies with their biological/adoptive parents
- 4. Theory maintaining the neighborhood characteristics
- 7. Theory contending that labeling a person as a deviant or criminal makes
- 9. Theory that explains the elements necessary for a crime to occur
- 10. Framework consisting of a group of theories that propose explanations
- 12. Theory maintaining that crimes will occur if crime opportunities are easy to commit
- 15. Theory asserting that criminal behaviors are learned from associating with others
- 16. In the FBI Uniform crime reports reporting scheme
- 18. So-called criminal chromosome, believed to cause agitation aggression and criminal tendencies