Exam 7: Sociological Explanations of Juvenile Delinquency:maturationlife-Course, rational Choicedeterrence, and Feminist Theorie

The author interviewed gang members in California cities and found that the youths __________.

Interviews of youth gang members in California cities showed no connection to Hedonism in explaining their criminal conduct.

Status offenses such as running away from home,sexual promiscuity or shoplifting can be found in statistics on juvenile __________.

Early theories of crime focused either too much on individual pathologies or too much on __________.

Social learning theories emphasize __________.

Social strain theory explains some juvenile delinquency as the __________.

One of the longest-standing and most agreed upon facts in studying juvenile delinquency is that __________ and __________ are related.

The general public likes this "get tough" attitude delinquent theory.

Rational Choice Theory research findings have been limited because __________.

Life-Course offenders are best defined by those who engage in __________.

Rational Choice and Deterrence Theories are widely supported in the United States because they appeal to common sense.

Rational Choice Theory contends that law-violating behavior occurs when an offender decides to take a chance violating the law,therefore __________.

Freda Adler's hypothesis as to why women have been historically underrepresented in crime and delinquency is called __________.

Sampson and Laub described how delinquents reformed when they dropped out of high school.

Television programming aimed at young adults show patterns of __________.