Across
- 1. deviance involving occasional breaking of norms that is not a part of a person's lifestyle or self-concept
- 9. discouraging criminal acts by threatening punishment
- 10. a method of protecting society from criminals by keeping them in prisons
- 12. system comprising institutions and processes responsible for enforcing criminal statutes
- 13. a social condition in which norms are weak, conflicting, or absent
- 14. involves behavior that underconforms to accepted norms
- 16. theory that society creates deviance by identifying particular members as deviant
Down
- 2. process of reducing the seriousness of the crimes that injure people of the lower status
- 3. process of changing or reforming a criminal through socialization
- 4. job-related crimes committed by high-status people
- 5. an undesirable trait or label that is used to characterize an individual
- 6. behavior that departs from societal or group norms
- 7. punishment intended to make criminal pay compensation for their acts
- 8. theory that compliance with social norms requires strong norms between individuals and society
- 11. a repetition of or return to criminal behavior
- 15. acts committed of violation of the law