Soc 348 - Juvenile Delinquency » Fall 2022 » Quiz 1

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Question #1
Which of the following is NOT an important stage in the development of modern adolescence?
A.   end of child labor
B.   creation of harsh punishments for juveniles, similar to those for adults
C.   development of the belief that raising children had to do with training and socializing
D.   them
E.   compulsory public schooling
Question #2
The extent to which a research instrument measures what it says it measures is called ________.
A.   ecological fallacy
B.   spurious association
C.   validity
D.   reliability
Question #3
One of the lessons of restorative justice taught to youths is ________.
A.   anger management
B.   conflict resolution skills
C.   empathy development
D.   substance abuse treatment
Question #4
Which of the following origins of delinquency became more widely accepted with positivists?
A.   structural
B.   psychological
C.   biological
D.   environmental
Question #5
Cultural deviance theories view delinquency and crime as an expression of ________ to cultural values and norms that are in opposition to those of the larger society.
A.   hostility
B.   anger
C.   deviation
D.   conformity
Question #6
The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development led by David Farrington found that all of the following were important risk factors of later offending EXCEPT which?
A.   family criminality
B.   low intelligence
C.   race
D.   antisocial behavior during childhood
Question #7
What did Lemert say would force a change in an individual's status or role?
A.   systematic rewards
B.   rationalization
C.   social reactions
D.   neutralization
Question #8
Which type of delinquents did Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin contend were the most serious?
A.   those who adopt the hip-hop subculture
B.   hose who leave home at a young age
C.   those who experience the greatest conflict with middle-class values
D.   those who were part of the opportunistic subculture
Question #9
What variable did Karl Marx suggest was the cause of crime?
A.   culture
B.   class struggle
C.   racial bias
D.   Poverty
Question #10
According to the principles of ________ juveniles who commit serious crimes or continue to break the law deserve punishment rather than treatment.
A.   the classical school
B.   sociobiology
C.   positivism
D.   routine activities
Question #11
Garrmezy has categorized protective factors into all of the areas EXCEPT _____
A.   attributes of peers
B.   individual attributes of the child or adolescent
C.   the climate and resources within the family
D.   the availability of and dependence on support systems in the community
Question #12
Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay viewed delinquency as resulting from a breakdown in social control among ________.
A.   political institutions
B.   family and neighborhood
C.   governmental agents
D.   religious institutions
Question #13
What did Richard Quinney argue is a social control instrument of the state to serve the interest of the dominant capitalist ruling class?
A.   public schools
B.   criminal laws
C.   civil courts
D.   radical criminology
Question #14
An exception to the general rule of juveniles being tried in juvenile courts includes those who ________.
A.   are arrested for less serious offenses
B.   are arrested for Part II offenses
C.   are scheduled for trial after their sixteenth birthday
D.   have a lengthy record of crime
Question #15
Which of the following is NOT a factor discovered by Blumstein and colleagues that distinguishes chronic offenders from other convicted offenders?
A.   conviction for a crime before age 13
B.   gender of the offender
C.   low family income
D.   convicted siblings
Question #16
Which of the following is NOT true concerning youths who carry guns?
A.   more likely to engage in serious assaults and robberies
B.   heavy drug users more likely to carry guns
C.   more likely to live in communities with high prevalence of gun ownership
D.   gang members less likely to carry guns
Question #17
According to ________, the aim of punishment is the protection of society with a dominant theme of deterrence.
A.   positivism
B.   atavism
C.   utilitarianism
D.   the social contract
Question #18
Which of the following is an oft-cited problem associated with the Uniform Crime Reports?
A.   The statistics reflect official police policy rather than the amount of youth crime.
B.   The statistics overestimate the actual amount of crime.
C.   The reports do not measure clearance by arrest.
D.   The reports are classified and are not made public.
Question #19
Travis Hirschi believed that most delinquents have relationships with each other that can be described as ________.
A.   warm and nurturing
B.   strong
C.   similar to that of family
D.   cold and brittle
Question #20
The most broad-based movement to strip the juvenile court of jurisdiction over all status offenders began in New York State in 1985 with passage of the ________.
A.   Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (JJDP) Act of 1974
B.   get tough mandate
C.   Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
D.   1985 PINS Adjustment Services Act
Question #21
Offending rates ________ in the teenage years, ________ in the late tweens and early twenties, and ________ thereafter
A.   increase, decrease, remain stable
B.   decrease, increase, decrease
C.   peak, increase, decline
D.   increase, peak, decline
Question #22
Laub and Sampson's ________ holds that attachments or social bonds in adulthood increase the social capital of some people, leading to desistance from most types of deviant behavior.
A.   social control theory
B.   reinforcement theory
C.   cognitive theory
D.   age-graded life-course perspective
Question #23
What concepts did Max Weber add to Marx's theory to explain social stratification
A.   power and prestige
B.   disorganization and culture
C.   status and wealth
D.   economy and restraint
Question #24
________ appears to be one of the most hopeful approaches to juvenile crime, especially with minor forms of juvenile delinquency.
A.   Conflict
B.   Restorative justice
C.   Labeling
D.   Symbolic interaction
Question #25
Which of the following was NOT among the principal objectives of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974?
A.   promote the development of correctional facilities
B.   promote deinstitutionalization of status offenders
C.   encourage community-based alternatives to juvenile detention
D.   encourage elimination of the practice of jailing juveniles
Question #26
________ involves the use of scientific principles to access the various evidence on program effectiveness and develop principles for best practices in any particular field.
A.   Get tough policies
B.   Evidence-based practices (EBP)
C.   Houses of refuge
D.   Deinstitutionalization of status offenders (DSO)
Question #27
According to Robert Merton, when adolescents accept the cultural goal but reject the institutional means of attaining it, they may pursue other illegitimate paths in a stage of adaptation called ________.
A.   innovation
B.   conformity
C.   ritualism
D.   retreatism
Question #28
The increase in homicides in the mid-1980s is commonly attributed to ________.
A.   more guns in use
B.   urban life
C.   single parents
D.   lenient courts
Question #29
A ________ effect is an explanation for stability in offending that attributes such stability to differences in antisocial characteristics across people that is established early in the life course and persists through time.
A.   state dependent
B.   cumulative
C.   persistent heterogeneity
D.   resistant
Question #30
Walter Miller characterized the value system of the lower class as a set of ________.
A.   urban utilities
B.   endemic entities
C.   focal concerns
D.   critical dimensions
Question #31
The presence of motivated offenders, an absence of guardians, and the availability of suitable targets is the mainstay of which approach?
A.   determinism
B.   sensation-seeking
C.   Freudian
D.   routine activities
Question #32
All of the following are elements of the social bond, according to Hirschi, EXCEPT ________.
A.   morals
B.   attachment
C.   belief
D.   involvement
Question #33
Which theory sees the social order as a dynamic process that is the ever-evolving product of an ongoing system of social interaction and communication?
A.   labeling theory
B.   theory of differential oppression
C.   differential social control theory
D.   symbolic interactionist theory
Question #34
Which of the following is a good example of a longitudinal method of research study?
A.   survey data
B.   content analysis
C.   experimental data
D.   cohort group
Question #35
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of crossover youth?
A.   high percentage of crossover youth are girls
B.   African American youth are overrepresented in crossover cases.
C.   more likely to have their cases dismissed compared to other youth
D.   younger than non-crossover youth
Question #36
According to ________, crime is more likely to occur when an individual's ties to the wider society are disrupted and when the trajectory of the life course tends to be continuous.
A.   social control theory
B.   life-course criminology
C.   conflict
D.   symbolic interaction
Question #37
  
A.   violent, property
B.   property, violent
C.   violent, financial
D.   financial, violent
Question #38
Which of the following is a cause for crime identified in the theory proposed by Martin Wolfgang and Franco Ferracuti?
A.   Lower-class boys are unable to attain the goals of middle-class culture, and therefore they become involved in nonutilitarian, malicious, and negative behavior.
B.   Social structure exerts pressure on individuals who cannot attain the cultural goal of success, leading them to engage in nonconforming behavior.
C.   Subcultures of violence exist among lower-class males and legitimize the use of violence.
D.   Lower-class boys seek out legitimate means to attain middle-class success goals, usually through one of three specialized gang contexts.
Question #39
The idea that authority is unjustly used against children is called the ________.
A.   Marxist perspective
B.   poverty oppression expression
C.   theory of differential oppression
D.   power-control thesis
Question #40
The "get-tough" attitude in the 1990s led to enacting of legislation in nearly every state changing the way juvenile delinquents were handled. Which of the following is NOT among the state initiatives in juvenile justice that continues in force today?
A.   banning of violence in video games
B.   creation of juvenile boot camps
C.   movement toward graduated sanctions
D.   expanded use of curfews
Question #41
Which of the following did Freud believe was the primitive drive leading to delinquency?
A.   id
B.   superego
C.   ego
D.   psychosexual desire
Question #42
Which of the following is NOT a technique of neutralization?
A.   denial of responsibility
B.   denial of family
C.   denial of the victim
D.   appeal to higher loyalties
Question #43
The foundation of criminal career research can be traced to the work of ________.
A.   Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck
B.   Travis Hirschi
C.   Farrington
D.   Shaw and McKay
Question #44
In which learning disorder does a child experience speech difficulties, often resulting from both auditory and visual deficiencies?
A.   dyslexia
B.   aphasia
C.   psychopathy
D.   hyperkinesis
Question #45
According to self-report studies, those who ________ later become chronic violent
A.   have an early age of onset
B.   never had an arrest record
C.   use drugs
D.   have a later age of onset
Question #46
Juvenile Court Statistics annuals are often criticized, much like UCRs, for only measuring crimes that ________.
A.   are committed by minorities
B.   are considered as status offenses
C.   are typically referred back to juvenile authorities
D.   are brought to the attention of the court
Question #47
Brian Francis and colleagues found that the most significant variable predicting length of criminal careers is ________.
A.   family characteristics
B.   age at first conviction
C.   community disorganization
D.   race of offender
Question #48
Which one of the following restorative-justice programs enables in-kind or actual return of what has been lost?
A.   victim-offender conferencing
B.   restitution programs
C.   community conferencing and peacemaking
D.   family group conferences
Question #49
During which time period were youthful violators regarded not as criminals but as children in need of care, protection, moral guidance, and discipline?
A.   houses of refuge era
B.   juvenile courts era
C.   juvenile rights era
D.   colonial period
Question #50
Which of the following pertains to the social control and juvenile crime era?
A.   nationwide deinstitutionalization of status offenders
B.   spread of drug-trafficking street gangs due to crack epidemic
C.   focus of federal effort on serious, violent, or chronic delinquents
D.   disillusionment with the family as a form of social control for delinquency
Question #51
According to twin and adoption studies, which of the following should have higher concordance rates?
A.   dizygotic twins
B.   adopted twins
C.   identical twins
D.   fraternal twins
Question #52
Which of the following individuals would represent the traits of impulsivity, lack of remorse and shame, and manipulativeness?
A.   a schizophrenic
B.   a sociopath
C.   a delusional delinquent
D.   a manic-depressant
Question #53
The view that delinquency is learned from others and that delinquent behavior is to be expected of individuals who have internalized a preponderance of definitions favorable to law violations is known as ________.
A.   differential association theory
B.   strain theory
C.   drift theory
D.   control theory
Question #54
Robert Sampson and John Laub claim that labeling is one factor leading to ________, which increases the likelihood of a person's involvement in criminal acts during adulthood.
A.   primary deviation
B.   subjective tags
C.   formal roles
D.   cumulative disadvantage
Question #55
Cohen and Felson believed the volume and distribution of predatory crime are related to the interaction of all of the following variables relating to routine activities EXCEPT ________.
A.   presence of motivated offenders
B.   availability of suitable targets
C.   skills necessary to engage in crime
D.   absence of capable guardians
Question #56
What term did Albert K. Cohen use to describe lower-class youths who were unable to attain middle-class goals?
A.   social rebellion
B.   status frustration
C.   ascetic hostility
D.   aspiration avoidance
Question #57
Which of the following asks what can be done to improve the quality of young people's lives and provides ideas for effectively treating and controlling youth crime?
A.   delinquency and social policy
B.   parens patriae philosophy of juvenile courts
C.   Developmental Life-Course theory
D.   historical context of delinquency
Question #58
The termination of an offending career is known as ________.
A.   age of onset
B.   desistance
C.   escalation
D.   persistence
Question #59
Claussen defined ________ as compromising the dimensions of self-confidence, dependability, and intellectual investment.
A.   self-control
B.   attachment
C.   planful competence
D.   turning points
Question #60
A law violation by a young person is considered an act of juvenile delinquency if the behavior meets all of the following criteria EXCEPT ________.
A.   the juvenile is charged with an offense that must be adjudicated in the juvenile court or the prosecution and juvenile court judge exercise their discretion to retain jurisdiction
B.   the young person is below the age at which the criminal court traditionally assumes jurisdiction
C.   the act would be a criminal offense if it were committed by an adult
D.   the act is illegal for underage persons but not for adults

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