Exam 1: A Sociological Approach to Juvenile Delinquency

Near the end of the 19th century,new child labor laws were legislated to protect youth from exploitation.

The sociological perspective

The establishment of a legal definition of juvenile delinquency that differentiated youthful offenders from adult criminals generally has been viewed

The historical development of a formal juvenile justice system in the United States began in 1865?

The concept of adolescence was socially created to describe the first six years of a child's life.

The oldest and most familiar description of criminal misconduct by juveniles is the

Sociologist Helen Standard (1959)artfully appropriated elements of the theater to analyze social life as a carefully orchestrated drama.

How many American youths in general share the frustrations and marginality of being adolescent?

Typically,the minimum age for delinquency is set at

While the two terms "juvenile" and "delinquency" are used frequently by Americans,it is interesting to note that they are relatively new concepts that do not necessarily connote the same meanings to all who use them.

Peter Berger suggests that

The concept of adolescence was socially created to describe

Most illegal acts attributed to young people

British common law exempted children under the age of 14 from criminal courts.

In traditional agrarian America,the normative expectations for children and for adults were

Which sociologist artfully appropriated elements of the theater to analyze social life as a carefully orchestrated drama?

What type of disciplinarians were the early American colonists?

Most juvenile behavior

Rules that govern the behavior of youths in the United States such as age restrictions on marriage and the consumptive of alcoholic beverages are

Prescriptive norms