Across
- 2. America’s national bird
- 4. People who choose this mode of adaptation seek to reform the system by creating their own goals and means.
- 5. According to Cloward & Ohlin’s opportunity theory, response to economic strain varies by access to ____ ____ to earn money.
- 7. The institutional-anomie theory is a ____-level theory as it seeks to explain why US has a higher rate of serious crime than other developed nations.
- 10. According to Agnew, strain has an ____ effect on crime.
- 12. The mode of adaptation that involves rejecting culturally-defined goals but accepting the institutional means
- 13. Breakdown in social norms caused by excessive emphasis on economic success
- 16. Anomie and deviance are mutually ____.
- 17. The process of using thoughts and behaviors to manage stressful situations
Down
- 1. The mode of adaptation that involves withdrawing from society
- 3. The only criminal adaptation to strain
- 6. Pressure produced by the disconnect between cultural expectations and what society makes possible, according to Merton
- 8. The negative emotion most likely to lead to criminal behavior, according to Agnew
- 9. Merton’s anomie theory can only explain ____ crimes.
- 11. The theorist who developed general strain theory: Robert ____
- 14. The name of Cohen’s theory influenced by Merton: ____ ____
- 15. Accepting culturally-defined goals AND the institutional means
