Test Bank for Juvenile Delinquency: Theory, Practice, and Law 13th
Edition
True / False
1. The effects on children’s cognitive achievement, educational attainment, nutrition, physical and mental health, and
social behavior due to poverty are limited.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
2. The...
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Test Bank for Juvenile Delinquency: Theory, Practice, and Law 13th
Edition Larry J. Siegel, Brandon C. Welsh, ISBN: 9781337091831
,True / False
1. The effects on children’s cognitive achievement, educational attainment, nutrition, physical and mental health, and
social behavior due to poverty are limited.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
2. The U.S. is still one of the few democracies in the world that will put a juvenile offender to death for a capital offense.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
3. The superego, according to Freud, is formed when youths develop a full sense of the self, combining how they see
themselves and how they fit in with others.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
4. Ego identity and role diffusion are used interchangeably to describe how juveniles tend to give in to peer pressure
through their early teen years.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
5. By age 18, American youths have spent more time in front of a television than in the classroom.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
6. Based on current social mechanisms that have been put in place over the last decade, child poverty in the United States
no longer has a long-lasting negative effect on children’s cognitive achievement, educational attainment, and overall
physical and mental health.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
7. Today’s youths appear to be drinking less alcohol and taking fewer drugs when compared to previous generations.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
8. The study of juvenile delinquency involves a variety of social problems faced by youth; it does not extend to the
analysis of the various components of the justice system such as law enforcement.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
, 9. As soon as they were physically able to do so, children of peasants were expected to engage in adult roles.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
10. During the Middle Ages high infant mortality rates kept parents from emotionally bonding with their children.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
11. The federal law known as the “Factory Act” sought to formally limit the number of hours children were permitted to
work, but did nothing to address school attendance.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
12. Early English jurisprudence held that children under the age of 6 were legally incapable of committing crimes.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
13. Voluntary apprentices were bound out by parents or guardians who wished to secure training for their children.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
14. Involuntary apprenticeship, indenture, and binding out of children did not become responses to the problems of
indigent, delinquent, or orphaned children until the late eighteenth century.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
15. Under parens patriae delinquent acts are not considered criminal violations.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
16. Minors in the United States that are apprehended for any criminal act are always charged as a juvenile, and then
adjudicated delinquent.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
17. Delinquent behavior tends to be sanctioned less heavily than adult criminality because the law considers juveniles as
being less responsible for their behavior than adults.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
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