Exam 6: Developmental Patterns of Offending

The age at which an individual begins involvement in delinquency is referred to as participation age.

Patterson and his colleagues developed a/an ______________ model to explain antisocial behavior of early starters.

The most significant finding in the research of Wolfgang and his colleagues is that:

Which of the following is NOT one of the key themes of the developmental perspective?

Studies have shown that early-onset offenders tend to engage in less serious offenses than do late-onset offenders.

In Delinquency in a Birth Cohort, Wolfgang and his colleagues divided the cohort they studied into three groups. Which of the following is NOT one of those groups?

Of the delinquents that Wolfgang and his colleagues studied, which group was smallest in number?

The criminal career approach focuses on individual offenders and their patterns of offending over time.

The "criminal career" paradigm presented by Blumstein and his colleagues:

The general conclusion we can draw from research on the co-occurrence of problem behaviors is that various forms of deviance, including delinquency, often occur together.

The finding that problem behaviors such as delinquency, substance use, and school misconduct often occur together for serious, persistent delinquents is called:

In Patterson's late-starter model, the direct cause of delinquency is poor parenting skills.

Wolfgang, Figlio, and Sellin's study is most noted for its findings regarding "chronic offenders."

Moffitt's theory of life-course-persistent antisocial behavior relies only on personal traits to explain the continuity of offending over the life course.

Studies have shown that early-onset offenders tend to engage in ______________ offenses than do late-onset offenders.

What term is used in the criminal career literature to refer to the average rate at which active offenders commit crimes?

The research of Marvin Wolfgang and his colleagues shows that delinquents who begin offending at a relatively young age tend to accumulate lengthy criminal careers that extend well into adulthood.

______________ refers to the extent to which juvenile delinquency is a component of a larger group of problem behaviors, such as drug and alcohol use, mental health problems, and underachievement in school.

Using data from a national work experiment, Christopher Uggen found that the influence of work on desistance differed depending on the _____________ of offenders.

______________ is the tendency for offenders to move to more serious offenses as offending continues.