Exam 11: Is Delinquency More Likely in Certain Types of Situations

Explain robbery using a "routine activities" perspective. In your answer, identify the three factors that converge to make robbery most likely.

Design a strategy to reduce delinquency by reducing situational strains inherent in intense rivalries between high schools.

Violent delinquency is most likely to emerge:

Explain what Agnew and Brezina mean when they state that offenders often are not innocent victims.

Describe "offensive touching" as a situational strain and explain its relationship to violent offending.

Delinquency most likely occurs:

As discussed in the text, routine activities can best be described as:

Explain how certain types of routine activities increase the likelihood of juveniles encountering situations conducive to delinquency. Address the following in your answer: (1) what they do and with whom they do it; (2) when they do it; and (3) where they do it.

Research with punk rockers found that they were more likely to respond to provocations with violence when:

The use of alcohol and certain drugs like barbiturates tends to:

Strain theorists might explain adolescence-limited crime as partly related to the:

Describe how social and technological changes affect routine activities and, consequently, levels of delinquency.

Describe the characteristics of a person who would be an attractive target for crime.

As discussed in the text, the most common type of situational strain associated with delinquency is:

Thus far, the textbook has focused on the factors that create a general predisposition or willingness to engage in delinquency. Briefly describe these factors. How often do predisposed individuals commit delinquent acts? What influences the chance that a predisposed individual will commit delinquency? Do all predisposed individuals become juvenile delinquents? Explain your answers.

List three factors that influence routine activities.

Describing situations most conducive to delinquency not only helps us predict when predisposed juveniles will engage in delinquency, but also has important policy implications. Describe a few of these policy implications. Is it possible to reduce the amount of delinquency an individual commits? If so, how?

Individuals may engage in crimes like shoplifting, burglary, and prostitution in order to:

Under which of the following conditions is a juvenile most likely to engage in delinquency?

Identify the types of situations in which juveniles are most likely to engage in delinquency.