Across
- 2. as a result of competition and social inequality
- 4. two or more people or groups in opposition to achieve a goal that only one can attain (advancement in school, sports)
- 7. as either natural in people with weak ties to the community (control theory), as a learned behavior (cultural transmission theory), or as a label (labeling theory)
- 9. includes murder, robbery; most victims are African Americans
- 10. sanctions used to punish those found guilty of crimes
- 11. assigned according to qualities beyond a person’s control (woman, child)
- 13. defines the boundaries of acceptable behavior
- 14. determine the guilt or innocence of an accused person by means of a trial and assigns some form of punishment if there is a guilty finding
- 15. have most immediate control over who is arrested for a criminal act
- 16. Group serves to draw the line between conforming members of society and “outsiders” – the nonconforming members
- 18. acquired through direct efforts (Basketball player= thru skills)
- 20. as the natural outgrowth of the values, norms, and structures of society
Down
- 1. two or more people or groups working together to achieve a goal that will benefit more than one of them
- 3. committed by high-status individuals in the course of their professions; includes fraud, tax evasion, embezzlement
- 5. used to punish offenders younger than age 18
- 6. acts that allow individuals to relieve tension without disrupting the basic fabric of society
- 8. includes burglary, larceny, vehicle theft; more common than violent crimes
- 12. the pursuit of crime as a big business
- 14. the deliberate attempt to control a person by force, to oppose someone else, or to harm another person
- 17. a socially defined position in a group or in a society and has attached to it one or more roles
- 19. includes prostitution, gambling, illegal drug use; offender is the only victim