CRIJ 3320 eCrossword Puzzle 5

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Across
  1. 3. This word, from the Latin word “luna,” or moon, indicates the belief that human minds can be affected by phases of the moon.
  2. 4. Assumes that supernatural forces cause and control crime commission.
  3. 6. School of thought that posits that crime is caused by environmental or geographic forces.
  4. 8. In this justification, the purpose of punishment is not to obtain revenge or deter or change the criminal; rather, it is the attempt to protect society from criminals and, in so doing, to reinforce group solidarity.
  5. 9. Used the criminal statistics that were beginning to become available in the 1820s to create early crime maps.
  6. 11. One of the leading theories of criminal opportunity based on the assumption that crime can be reduced by pinpointing and blocking the forces that facilitate would-be offenders’ criminal acts.
  7. 14. Marx’s term for the capitalists or owners of industry.
  8. 17. Refers to the working class in Marx’s writings.
  9. 18. Quetelet’s theory that violent crime increases toward the equator.
  10. 19. Assumes that the purpose of punishing criminals is to reform or resocialize them to conventional, law-abiding values.
  11. 20. This society preaches that all members of the tribe should be able to become successful if they perform well as undergraduates.
  12. 22. The societal counterpart of individual revenge.
  13. 23. The first scientific criminologist, and is the father of modern sociological and psychological statistics.
Down
  1. 1. Influenced by the writings of Karl Marx and views inequality and capitalism as the causes of crime.
  2. 2. Contained in the writings of Beccaria and Bentham, these theories assume that criminals are rational actors who weigh the pleasure and pain of an activity.
  3. 5. The assumption that the criminal is a racial actor and will be deterred by more severe and certain punishment.
  4. 7. The prevention of crime by keeping criminals behind bars for longer periods.
  5. 10. A practical philosophical view that claims that “we should always act so as to produce the greatest possible ratio of good to evil for all concerned.”
  6. 12. Proposes that offenders weight the opportunities, costs, and benefits of particular crimes.
  7. 13. New classical theories that view crime as influenced by criminal opportunities to commit crime.
  8. 15. A plausible explanation of a given reality.
  9. 16. A pleasure-seeking philosophy.
  10. 21. Refers to the belief that perceived punishment will serve as a warning and inhibit individuals and groups from involvement in criminal activity.