Juvenile Delinquency

Voluntary apprentices were bound out by parents or guardians who wished to secure training for their children. correct answer: True Early English jurisprudence held that children under the age of 6 were legally incapable of committing crimes. correct answer: False The courts have struck down most juvenile curfew laws as unconstitutional. correct answer: False By age 18, American youths have spent more time in front of a television than in the classroom. correct answer: True Based...

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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 jurisdiction will cut off for a crime) - most states do not prosecute under the age of 7 (meaning the child is not crime) Discretionary Waiver correct answer: Discretion of the juvenile court judge -...

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, what does this data tell us about the most powerful intervention agent for altering criminal conduct? correct answer: -The less we do with these kids, the better off they are -Hands off approach is ...

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 young so you can decrease their risks for delinquency. 2. If a treatment starts after the peak around the age of 18, it will be viewed successfully if it waits because the person will commit less crim...

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 both children and adults-> teenagers tend to be impulsive, rebellious, confused/identity-seeking, etc Why is understanding the social construction of teenagers relevant to the study of delinquency...

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 position of power to keep those that don't have power, in their place. Types of norms in society correct answer: -folkways: behavioral infractions that do not cause dramatic reactions from people if vio...

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 Court ruling stating that a child younger than 7 cannot be guilty of a felony or punished for a capital offense because he or she is presumed incapable of forming criminal intent. ascribed status corr...

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 physiologically similar to our primitive ancestors, savage throwbacks to an earlier stage of human development Arousal Theory correct answer: Theory which posits that aggression is a function of th...