JUVENILE DELINQUENCY TESTS COMPILATION BUNDLE

A number of states have experimented with what type of intervention to replace juvenile court jurisdiction over most status offenses? correct answer: Community-based treatment programs As an adolescent, Mandy is undergoing a dramatic changes in her height, weight and sexual characteristics; thes...

Delinquency correct answer: law violation by youths 2 Kinds of Delinquency: correct answer: Criminal acts and status offenses Criminal acts correct answer: Actual law violations, same as if adult committed it (murder, robbery, rape, arson, etc.) Status offenses correct answer: "crimes ...

What has a temporary and short-term influence on a child's behavior? correct answer: Delinquent friends What do delinquents perceive they have fewer off? correct answer: legitimate opportunities. Do psychopathic youths act aggressively in detention centers? correct answer: yes Are race ...

Psychodynamic Theory correct answer: Sigmud Freud's Theory that holds that the human personality is controlled by unconscious mental processes (ID) developed early in childhood. Criminal Atavism correct answer: Idea that delinquents manifest physical anomalies that make them biologically and p...

achieved status correct answer: a status that is earned adolescence limited offenders correct answer: the overwhelming majority of children who commit a few minor acts of delinquency on an inconsistent basis during their teen years Allen v. United States correct answer: The U.S. Supreme Cou...

Conceptions of delinquency correct answer: normative conception: generally agreed upon norms. social constructionist conception: our behaviors become deviant only when we see the behavior as deviant and apply that label to it. critical conception: norms have been set upon those with positio...

What is the definition of juvenile delinquency? correct answer: The participation in illegal behavior by a minor who falls under a statutory age limit. What is a status offense? correct answer: Conduct that is illegal only because the child is of a certain age. In what ways do we measure del...

Discuss the social construction of teenagers and how they are defined. correct answer: Focus on teenagers + conceptualizing them as their own group came when the baby boomer generation hit that age range--more concentration on them as their own group of people Defined as a separate group from bo...

Age Distribution of Crime correct answer: Crime increases rapidly through pre-adolescence -> peaks at 18-21 -> declines rapidly after -> decline continually throughout adulthood Implication of Age Discrimination correct answer: 1. You implement prevention programs early when kids are y...

A fact to remember correct answer: -A majority of juveniles who are arrested will never again be arrested, either as a juvenile or as an adult -Maryland study: 56% youth never taken into custody again -North Dakota study: 58% of youth taken into custody were never taken into custody again So, ...

Juvenile Delinquency correct answer: Act committed by an individual under the age of 18 that violates the penal code of the region in which the act us committed (social construct ) Delinquent correct answer: -the age determines the status -lower and upper ages (dictate cutoff age when jurisdi...

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Proceedings concerning juveniles officially begin with the filing of a ______ alleging that a juvenile is delinquent, dependent, neglected, abused, in need of supervision, or in need of authoritative intervention. correct answer: Petition Since the _______ decision, regardless of the particular ...