Across
- 3. ways to encourage conformity to society's norms
- 7. theory that individuals learn deviance in proportion to the number of deviant act and norms in which they are exposed
- 10. behavior that over conforms to social expectations
- 12. person who breaks significant societal or group norms
- 13. job-related crimes committed by high-status people
- 14. system comprising institutions and processes responsible for enforcing criminal statutes
- 18. behavior that departs from societal or group norms
- 20. punishment intended to make criminals pay monetary compensation to make up for the financial damage caused by their acts
- 21. theory that compliance with social norms requires strong bonds between individuals and society
- 22. theory that deviance is more likely to occur when a gap exists between cultural goals and the ability to achieve them
- 24. deviance involving occasional breaking of norms that is not a part of a person lifestyle or self-concept
Down
- 1. repetition,or return to, criminal behavior
- 2. punishment intended to make criminals pay compensation for their acts
- 4. behavior that under conforms to accepted norms
- 5. theory that society creates deviance by identifying particular numbers as deviant
- 6. discouraging criminal acts by threatening punishment
- 8. deviance in which an individuals life and identify are organized around breaking societys norms
- 9. social condition in which norms are weak, conflicting, or absent
- 11. process of reducing the seriousness of the crimes that injure people of lower status
- 15. process of changing and reforming a criminal through socialization
- 16. rewards or punishment that encourage conformity to social norms
- 17. an undesiravle label that is used to deny a deviant social acceptance
- 19. method of protecting society from criminals by keeping them in prison
- 23. act committed in violation of the law