Across
- 1. Behaviour that differs from accepted social norms; it may include acts that violate specific rules (crime), sexual behaviours, or non-criminal acts that challenge accepted values.
- 4. The study of insects to assist in legal investigations; insects found on a corpse can help identify facts about the time and place of the victim’s death.
- 6. The finding that two measurable phenomena occur together, suggesting a relationship, but not necessarily one of direct cause and effect.
- 7. The study of crime and criminal behaviour, which are defined by reference to criminal law.
- 10. To define an act as a crime and thereby subject that act to formal punishment.
- 11. To strongly disapprove of a person or behaviour; to find disgraceful.
Down
- 2. The state of being criminal; criminal acts or practices.
- 3. Strategies intended to shape the physical environment to mitigate crime; also various programs targeting individual offenders, offering alternatives to criminal behaviour.
- 5. Statistical data relating to characteristics of a population, such as relative size of age groups, gender balance, or any other measurable information.
- 8. Those attributes or features that distinguish or characterize an individual.
- 9. That which is understood or verified through experiment, measurement, or direct observation; as opposed to theoretical.