Across
- 5. A theory that explains the elements necessary for a crime opportunities are easy to commit, carry low risk, provide large rewards, provoke people, and are excusable, as judged by a wide range of potential offenders
- 6. A theory maintaining that neighborhood characteristics, including poverty, racial heterogeneity, and resident transiency,break down social controls and lead to criminal behavior
- 8. Published annually by the FBI, each report describes the nature of crime as reported by law enforcement agencies; includes analyses of part 1 crimes
- 11. A crime reporting system in which police describe each offence that occurs during a crime event as well as characteristics of the offender
- 13. A random survey of U.S households that measures crimes committed against victims; includes crimes not reported to police
- 15. (of criminology) A perspective indicating that people have free will to choose between criminal and lawful behavior, and that crime can be controlled by sanctions and should be proportionate to the offence
- 17. A theory that explains how gender inequality affects female offending and justice system responses to crimes committed by females
- 18. A theory asserting that criminal behaviors are learned from associating with others and from social interactions and social experiences
- 19. Criminological research that looks at whether adopted children share criminal tendencies with their biological or adopted parents
Down
- 1. An approach to crime that is grounded in the concept of rational choice but that views the accused as exempted from conviction if circumstances prevented the exercise of free will
- 2. A framework consisting of a group of theories that propose similar explanations for a particular type of behavior or event(e.g crime)
- 3. In the FBI uniform crime reports reporting scheme, the practice whereby only the most serious offence of several that are committed during a criminal act is reported by the police
- 4. The argument that people are most likely to engage in criminal behavior if they 1. have traits associated with crime and 2. are raised in environments conductive to criminal behavior
- 6. A theory that explains crime as an outcome of conflicting interests between groups with less power
- 7. The so called criminal chromosome; criminal behavior is thought to be caused, in some offenders by an extra Y chromosome believed to cause agitation, aggression, and greater criminal tendencies
- 9. A theory contending that labeling a person as a deviant or criminal makes that person more likely to engage in future criminal behavior
- 10. A school of thought that argues science can be used to discover the true causes of crime, which include factors outside of offender's control
- 12. A theory that describes criminal behavior as a natural outcome of peoples desire to seek pleasure in the absence of effective social controls
- 14. The number of reported crimes divided by the population of the jurisdiction and multiplied by 100,000 persons; developed and used by the FBI uniform crime reports
- 16. A theory that argues criminal behavior is caused by feelings of strain, which occur when people believe that legitimate means of achieving success are not accessible to them