Ultimate Crime Crossword

4. The idea that media influences individuals directly, potentially encouraging criminal behaviour.
5. Agencies like the police and courts that enforce social control through sanctions such as fines or prison.
8. The methods used to regulate behaviour and ensure conformity to society’s norms and values.
9. The ways family, friends, and peer groups influence individuals to conform to societal norms.
10. Surveys where individuals confess to crimes they have committed, revealing hidden offending.
11. Any behaviour that breaks society’s norms and values, which may or may not be criminal.
13. The experience of being targeted by crime, which can vary by social class, gender, or ethnicity.
15. Research that asks people about crimes they have experienced to uncover unreported crime levels.
16. A process where individuals are given a category or stereotype, which can influence their future behaviour.
17. When a person internalises a label they have been given and starts behaving in line with it.
18. A dominant label that overshadows other aspects of a person’s identity, such as being seen only as a criminal.
21. The anger felt by those who cannot achieve success through approved means, leading them to crime.

1. The idea that young people temporarily engage in deviant behaviour for excitement but grow out of it.
2. Exaggerated media coverage that creates widespread fear about a group’s behaviour, e.g. gang violence.
3. A process where a person repeatedly engages in deviant behaviour due to their criminal label.
6. Crimes committed by large companies or employees to increase profits, such as tax evasion or environmental damage.
7. Groups identified as a threat to society by the media, often scapegoated for social problems.
8. The idea that people commit crime when they cannot achieve success through legitimate means.
12. Crime committed by middle-class professionals within their jobs, often to gain financial benefit, e.g. fraud by accountants.
14. An action that breaks the law and is punishable by formal social control, such as fines or imprisonment.
17. Blaming a particular group for society’s problems, e.g. immigrants being blamed for crime rates.
19. A group with distinct norms and values that may encourage criminal or deviant behaviour.
20. Discrimination within institutions such as the police or courts, leading to unfair treatment of ethnic minorities.