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CRYSTAL METH – a slang name for crystalline
methamphetamine.

CULTURAL CRIMINOLOGY – a distinct theoretical,
methodological and interventionist approach to the
study of crime that places criminality and its
control in the context of culture; that is, it views
crime and the agencies and institutions of crime
control as cultural products—as creative
constructs. As such they must be read in terms of
the meanings they carry.

CULTURAL DEVIANCE THEORY – a theory that
views crime as one resulting from man’s cultural
values that permit and allow crime and delinquency
to happen or even demand behavior that violate
the laws.

CULTURAL TRANSMISSION - handling down of
delinquency as a socially learned behavior,
transmitted from one generation to the next
especially among depressed and disorganized
urban areas.

CULTURE CONFLICT THEORY – explains that
different groups have different conduct norms, and
the conduct norm of one group may be in conflict
with those of another. Adherence to one’s own
norm would violate the norm of another group.

CUMULATIVE EVIDENCE – additional evidence of
the same kind bearing on the same point.

CUMULATIVE QUESTION – a question which has
already been asked and answered.

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