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.   development of the belief that raising children had to do with training and socializing
C.   compulsory public schooling
D.   creation of harsh punishments for juveniles, similar to those for adults
E.   them
Question #2
The extent to which a research instrument measures what it says it measures is called ________.
A.   ecological fallacy
B.   validity
C.   reliability
D.   spurious association
Question #3
One of the lessons of restorative justice taught to youths is ________.
A.   anger management
B.   substance abuse treatment
C.   conflict resolution skills
D.   empathy development
Question #4
Which of the following origins of delinquency became more widely accepted with positivists?
A.   biological
B.   psychological
C.   environmental
D.   structural
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.   anger
B.   hostility
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.   antisocial behavior during childhood
B.   low intelligence
C.   race
D.   family criminality
Question #7
What did Lemert say would force a change in an individual's status or role?
A.   neutralization
B.   rationalization
C.   systematic rewards
D.   social reactions
Question #8
Which type of delinquents did Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin contend were the most serious?
A.   hose who leave home at a young age
B.   those who experience the greatest conflict with middle-class values
C.   those who adopt the hip-hop subculture
D.   those who were part of the opportunistic subculture
Question #9
What variable did Karl Marx suggest was the cause of crime?
A.   class struggle
B.   racial bias
C.   Poverty
D.   culture
Question #10
According to the principles of ________ juveniles who commit serious crimes or continue to break the law deserve punishment rather than treatment.
A.   positivism
B.   sociobiology
C.   the classical school
D.   routine activities
Question #11
Garrmezy has categorized protective factors into all of the areas EXCEPT _____
A.   the climate and resources within the family
B.   the availability of and dependence on support systems in the community
C.   individual attributes of the child or adolescent
D.   attributes of peers
Question #12
Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay viewed delinquency as resulting from a breakdown in social control among ________.
A.   religious institutions
B.   family and neighborhood
C.   governmental agents
D.   political 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.   civil courts
B.   criminal laws
C.   public schools
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.   have a lengthy record of crime
C.   are scheduled for trial after their sixteenth birthday
D.   are arrested for Part II offenses
Question #15
Which of the following is NOT a factor discovered by Blumstein and colleagues that distinguishes chronic offenders from other convicted offenders?
A.   gender of the offender
B.   conviction for a crime before age 13
C.   convicted siblings
D.   low family income
Question #16
Which of the following is NOT true concerning youths who carry guns?
A.   heavy drug users more likely to carry guns
B.   more likely to engage in serious assaults and robberies
C.   gang members less likely to carry guns
D.   more likely to live in communities with high prevalence of gun ownership
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 reports do not measure clearance by arrest.
C.   The reports are classified and are not made public.
D.   The statistics overestimate the actual amount of crime.
Question #19
Travis Hirschi believed that most delinquents have relationships with each other that can be described as ________.
A.   warm and nurturing
B.   similar to that of family
C.   cold and brittle
D.   strong
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.   1985 PINS Adjustment Services Act
D.   Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Question #21
Offending rates ________ in the teenage years, ________ in the late tweens and early twenties, and ________ thereafter
A.   increase, peak, decline
B.   increase, decrease, remain stable
C.   peak, increase, decline
D.   decrease, increase, decrease
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.   cognitive theory
C.   age-graded life-course perspective
D.   reinforcement theory
Question #23
What concepts did Max Weber add to Marx's theory to explain social stratification
A.   power and prestige
B.   status and wealth
C.   economy and restraint
D.   disorganization and culture
Question #24
________ appears to be one of the most hopeful approaches to juvenile crime, especially with minor forms of juvenile delinquency.
A.   Labeling
B.   Conflict
C.   Symbolic interaction
D.   Restorative justice
Question #25
Which of the following was NOT among the principal objectives of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974?
A.   promote deinstitutionalization of status offenders
B.   promote the development of correctional facilities
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.   Evidence-based practices (EBP)
B.   Deinstitutionalization of status offenders (DSO)
C.   Get tough policies
D.   Houses of refuge
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.   retreatism
B.   innovation
C.   ritualism
D.   conformity
Question #28
The increase in homicides in the mid-1980s is commonly attributed to ________.
A.   urban life
B.   more guns in use
C.   lenient courts
D.   single parents
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.   persistent heterogeneity
B.   state dependent
C.   cumulative
D.   resistant
Question #30
Walter Miller characterized the value system of the lower class as a set of ________.
A.   endemic entities
B.   urban utilities
C.   critical dimensions
D.   focal concerns
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.   routine activities
C.   sensation-seeking
D.   Freudian
Question #32
All of the following are elements of the social bond, according to Hirschi, EXCEPT ________.
A.   involvement
B.   belief
C.   morals
D.   attachment
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.   theory of differential oppression
B.   labeling theory
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.   content analysis
B.   cohort group
C.   experimental data
D.   survey data
Question #35
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of crossover youth?
A.   African American youth are overrepresented in crossover cases.
B.   younger than non-crossover youth
C.   high percentage of crossover youth are girls
D.   more likely to have their cases dismissed compared to other 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.   conflict
C.   life-course criminology
D.   symbolic interaction
Question #37
  
A.   violent, property
B.   violent, financial
C.   financial, violent
D.   property, 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 seek out legitimate means to attain middle-class success goals, usually through one of three specialized gang contexts.
B.   Social structure exerts pressure on individuals who cannot attain the cultural goal of success, leading them to engage in nonconforming behavior.
C.   Lower-class boys are unable to attain the goals of middle-class culture, and therefore they become involved in nonutilitarian, malicious, and negative behavior.
D.   Subcultures of violence exist among lower-class males and legitimize the use of violence.
Question #39
The idea that authority is unjustly used against children is called the ________.
A.   theory of differential oppression
B.   Marxist perspective
C.   poverty oppression expression
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.   movement toward graduated sanctions
B.   creation of juvenile boot camps
C.   banning of violence in video games
D.   expanded use of curfews
Question #41
Which of the following did Freud believe was the primitive drive leading to delinquency?
A.   id
B.   psychosexual desire
C.   superego
D.   ego
Question #42
Which of the following is NOT a technique of neutralization?
A.   denial of the victim
B.   denial of responsibility
C.   denial of family
D.   appeal to higher loyalties
Question #43
The foundation of criminal career research can be traced to the work of ________.
A.   Shaw and McKay
B.   Travis Hirschi
C.   Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck
D.   Farrington
Question #44
In which learning disorder does a child experience speech difficulties, often resulting from both auditory and visual deficiencies?
A.   hyperkinesis
B.   dyslexia
C.   aphasia
D.   psychopathy
Question #45
According to self-report studies, those who ________ later become chronic violent
A.   have a later age of onset
B.   use drugs
C.   never had an arrest record
D.   have an early 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.   community disorganization
B.   age at first conviction
C.   family characteristics
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.   family group conferences
B.   community conferencing and peacemaking
C.   restitution programs
D.   victim-offender conferencing
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.   juvenile courts era
B.   colonial period
C.   houses of refuge era
D.   juvenile rights era
Question #50
Which of the following pertains to the social control and juvenile crime era?
A.   nationwide deinstitutionalization of status offenders
B.   disillusionment with the family as a form of social control for delinquency
C.   focus of federal effort on serious, violent, or chronic delinquents
D.   spread of drug-trafficking street gangs due to crack epidemic
Question #51
According to twin and adoption studies, which of the following should have higher concordance rates?
A.   adopted twins
B.   dizygotic 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 delusional delinquent
C.   a sociopath
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.   strain theory
B.   drift theory
C.   differential association 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.   formal roles
B.   subjective tags
C.   cumulative disadvantage
D.   primary deviation
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.   skills necessary to engage in crime
C.   availability of suitable targets
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.   aspiration avoidance
B.   status frustration
C.   ascetic hostility
D.   social rebellion
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.   parens patriae philosophy of juvenile courts
B.   Developmental Life-Course theory
C.   delinquency and social policy
D.   historical context of delinquency
Question #58
The termination of an offending career is known as ________.
A.   persistence
B.   escalation
C.   desistance
D.   age of onset
Question #59
Claussen defined ________ as compromising the dimensions of self-confidence, dependability, and intellectual investment.
A.   attachment
B.   turning points
C.   planful competence
D.   self-control
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 act is illegal for underage persons but not for adults
B.   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
C.   the young person is below the age at which the criminal court traditionally assumes jurisdiction
D.   the act would be a criminal offense if it were committed by an adult

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