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Attempting to eliminate the growth and manufacture of illegal drugs in parent countries
is referred to as____.
a. fresh start strategies
b. drug control
c. source control
d. primary source control
Modeled after DARE, ______ was developed to help reduce adolescent involvement in
crime through teaching and education of school children by police officers.
a. GARE
b. GREAT
c. SROA
d. GERT
Crime as an offense against human relationships is one of the seven core values of
restorative justice.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following is not one of the functions within juvenile corrections offered
by treatment facilities?
a. Boot camps
b. Aftercare
c. Training schools
d. Drug treatment
The screening of cases by the juvenile justice system is referred to as disposition.
a. True
b. False
_____ refers to a care facility developed by the child savers to protect potential criminal
youths by taking them off the street and providing a family-like environment.
a. The House of Refuge
b. Settlement houses
c. Reform schools
d. Group homes
In the countries of Austria, France, Italy, and _____, transfer of a juvenile to adult court
is not permissible.
a. Russia
b. Demark
c. Japan
d. Switzerland
The children of parents who drink, take drugs, or engage in criminal or antisocial
behaviors are at greater risk for delinquency.
a. True
b. False
The view of general strain theory is that multiple sources of strain interact with an
individual's emotional traits and responses to produce criminality.
a. True
b. False
The _____ created the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
a. Illinois Juvenile Court Act of 1899
b. Omnibus Safe Streets and Crime Control Act
c. Crime Prevention and Control Act of 1950
d. Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974
_____ describes the activities of the Children's Aid Society.
a. A child saving organization that took children from the streets of large cities and
placed them with farm families on the prairie
b. A child saving organization that took children away from abusive parents and placed
them in shelters
c. The organization, created by the child savers, whose primary focus was on preventing
delinquency by picking up children and placing them in reform schools
d. The organization, created by the Quakers, to prevent children from being abused by
punishing the parents by criminally prosecuting them
Jill runs a group session for youth who demonstrate chronic behavioral problems,
antisocial behaviors, impulsivity, and substance abuse. For whom does Jill run a group?
a. Youth with obsessive-compulsive disorder
b. Youth with attention deficit disorder
c. Youth with conduct disorder
d. Youth with a learning disability
In regard to the relationship between propensity and opportunity in the commission of
delinquent acts, which of the following is correct?
a. Both propensity and opportunity remain stable
b. Both propensity and opportunity fluctuate
c. Propensity remains stable, opportunity fluctuates
d. Propensity fluctuates, opportunity remains stable
Evidence linking food allergies to antisocial behaviors are inconclusive.
a. True
b. False
Changing sex roles have created a more _____ family structure.
a. extended
b. authoritarian
c. egalitarian
d. authoritative
The choice of a program for a child that will best foster the child's growth and
development is called the least detrimental alternative.
a. True
b. False
Most status offenders are housed in private institutions.
a. True
b. False
The most common type of delinquency case judicially waived to adult criminal courts is
person offenses.
a. True
b. False
Research indicates that the daily stress of modern life has little significant impact on
American youth as they progress through their teenage years.
a. True
b. False
The Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC) targeted first-time mothers-to-be to receive
home visits from nurses during their pregnancy.
a. True
b. False
Alice is 16 and lives with her mother and four younger siblings in an impoverished
neighborhood. Alice does well in school and will be the first of her family to graduate
from high school. She knows she could have a better life by getting a college degree,
but she does not have the means to go to college and no one ever talks to Alice about
furthering her education. Like many teenage girls her age, Alice wants trendy clothes,
fashionable shoes, and expensive handbags. Alice works part-time at the local grocery
store, but her earnings go to her mother to help with family finances. Alice is
approached and asked to carry drugs to the dealers around town. She agrees; after all,
she is not the one selling the drugs so she really is not hurting anyone. The money Alice
makes allows her to quit her job at the grocery store, help her mother, and buy clothes,
shoes, and handbags. She now thinks that is not necessary to finish school. According to
Merton's social adaptation theory, which mode of adaptation best describes Alice?
a. Conformity
b. Innovation
c. Ritualism
d. Retreatist
Development of culturally sensitive explanations of human behavior in the 1930s led to
the nature theory of intelligence.
a. True
b. False
Yamill was researching early maturation in girls; some of the information she gathered
regarded early puberty in girls and girls who were abandoned by their fathers. What
was the link between paternal abandonment and early puberty in girls Yamill found in
her research?
a. Psychosocial
b. Psychological
c. Genetic
d. Unfounded
_____ refers to dividing students into groups according to their ability and achievement
levels.
a. Labeling
b. Identifying
c. Testing
d. Tracking
DZ twins are closer than MZ twins in level of aggression and verbal skills.
a. True
b. False
Minors apprehended for a criminal act are charged with the crime and then adjudicated
delinquent.
a. True
b. False
The Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 allows the child to _____.
a. avoid testifying in court if it would be embarrassing
b. use anatomically correct dolls to demonstrate what occurred
c. testify on videotape instead of in person
d. simply give a deposition instead of testifying in court
Between what ages did gender differences in aggression become noticeable when
children were socialized into organized groups?
a. 2, and 4
b. 2 and 5
c. 3 and 4
d. 3 and 6
Programs that integrate community protection, accountability of the juvenile offender,
competency, and individualized attention to the juvenile offender are called _____.
a. therapeutic programming
b. restorative justice
c. innovative justice
d. balanced probation
Probation orders are the rules and regulations mandating that a juvenile on probation
behave in a particular way.
a. True
b. False
What is social capital?
___ is a form of counseling that emphasizes current behavior and requires the
individual to accept responsibility for all of his or her actions.
A group of subjects that does not receive a prevention program is called the ____.
In Western culture, what was not considered as a distinct period of life until the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
Summarize contemporary research regarding the IQ and delinquency relationship. What
is your view of the relationship between intelligence and delinquency? Support your
view.
Depriving children of food, shelter, health care, and love is referred to as _____.
Elements in the randomized experimental design are the experimental group and the
____.
______ is the juvenile equivalent of sentencing for adult offenders.
Student _____ may be the function of students' inability to see the relevance of what
they are taught.
In England, the _____is in charge of criminal prosecutions of juveniles and adults.
What do community-level institutions provide that has been ascertained as a key
determinate of neighborhood delinquency rates?
______ is based on the idea that the juvenile offender is not a threat to the community
and has a better chance of being rehabilitated in the community.
Describe the three interrelated views of developmental theory. Explain your overall
view of this theory and which one of the three views you find most significant.
What theory holds the view that that criminality is a dynamic process, influenced by
social experiences as well as individual characteristics?
Identify and describe the patterns and trends in female violence. Explain your view on
female violence.
