Crime & Deviance

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Across
  1. 1. Both the legitimate means and the approved goals are rejected.
  2. 4. Behavior that departs from societal or group norms.
  3. 5. Punishment intended to make criminals pay compensation for their acts.
  4. 7. When people accept the goal and the means to achieve it.
  5. 9. A repetition, or return to, criminal behavior.
  6. 10. Crime committed by respectable and high-status people in the course of their occupations. (Hint: Two words!)
  7. 12. The stronger your ___ to groups or individuals, the more likely you are to conform. (Hint: Control Theory)
  8. 14. Discouraging criminal acts by threatening punishment.
  9. 16. Participation in approved social activities increases the probability of conformity. (Hint: Control Theory)
  10. 19. This type of deviance is an over-conformity to norms.
  11. 20. People reject the goal, but continue to use legitimate means.
  12. 23. This type of social control is developed during the socialization process.
  13. 24. Society creates deviance by ___ particular members as deviants.
  14. 26. Our idea of deviance is ___ to time, place, and social position.
  15. 27. This person is credited with creating Differential Association Theory.
  16. 29. This theory hypothesized that people can learn deviance from people they associate with!
  17. 32. This sociologist is credited with identifying and defining anomie.
  18. 33. This theory hypothesizes that social bonds control behavior!
  19. 34. This person is credited with creating Labeling Theory.
  20. 35. This person is credited with creating Control (Bond) Theory.
  21. 36. A social condition in which norms are weak, conflicting, or absent.
Down
  1. 2. A method of protecting society from criminals by keeping them in prison.
  2. 3. This type of deviance describes an occasional breaking of norms.
  3. 6. This type of deviance is a behavior that fails to meet accepted norms.
  4. 8. Payment made by an offender to the victim.
  5. 11. Reforming a criminal through socialization.
  6. 13. Victim ___ is the process of reducing the seriousness of crimes that injure people of lower status.
  7. 15. This type of social control is is based on sanctions (Rewards or punishments that encourage conformity to norms.)
  8. 17. A type of crime that is illegal, but does not infringe upon the rights of other people.
  9. 18. This person is credited with creating Strain Theory.
  10. 21. This theory hypothesizes that deviance is most likely to occur when there is a gap between desirable goals and a way of obtaining them.
  11. 22. ___ control is a way to encourage conformity to society’s norms.
  12. 25. Both the legitimate means and the approved goals are rejected, BUT they substitute a new set of goals and means.
  13. 28. The greater the ___ to social goals, the more likely you are to conform. (Example: American goal of success)
  14. 30. This type of deviance describes deviance that becomes a lifestyle and part of an individual’s identity.
  15. 31. When people accept the goal, but use illegal (or uncommon) means to achieve it.