Across
- 2. the competition among wealthy people and among poor people and between them which causes crime
- 5. theory: a theory that explains criminal behavior and its prevention with the concepts of positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement .
- 7. a process in which behavior that was previously was positively reinforced is no longer reinforced.
- 9. Men's control over women's labor and sexuality
- 11. presentation of an aversive stimulus to reduce to response.
- 12. reinforcement: the removal or reduction of stimulus whose removal or reduction increase or maintains a response.
- 13. Sutherland's theory that persons who become criminal do so because of contacts with criminal patterns and isolation from anti-criminal patterns
- 15. refers to inequalities that are defined by a person as unfair or unjust
- 17. a person who reverts to a savage type.
- 18. supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.
- 19. a means by which a person can learn new responses by observing others
Down
- 1. reinforcement: the presentation of a stimulus that increases or maintains a response.
- 3. the inability to dominate other groups in society
- 4. the way people and actions are defined as criminal
- 6. the ability of some groups to dominate other groups in a society.
- 8. a theory that emphasizes the criminalization process as the cause of some crime.
- 10. theories of crime causation that are generally based on a Marxist theory of class struggle
- 14. a theory that assumes that society is based primarily on conflict between competing interest groups and the criminal law and the criminal justice system are used to control subordinate groups
- 16. the principle that a policy should provide "the greatest happiness shared by the greatest number"