Exam 13: Delinquency Prevention, Assessment, and Early Intervention

__________ __________ are characteristics of the youth and his/her environment that can be changed through intervention, such as antisocial attitudes and values, association with delinquent peers, dysfunctional family relationships, and antisocial personality traits (impulsiveness, risk-taking, and low self-control).

Life Skills Training (LST) is a universal prevention program that provides a three-year drug use prevention curriculum to sixth or seventh graders, with booster sessions during the following two years.

Which theory argues that structural characteristics such as low economic status and residential mobility disrupt a community's social organization and contribute to high crime rates?

______________ theories focus on peer groups as the context in which delinquent behavior is reinforced.

Which of the following is NOT an empirically verified risk factor at the individual level?

Gottfredson and Hirschi's ______________ theory focuses on controls within individuals.

Risk assessment instruments classify youth according to their likelihood of delinquent offending.

The program features that lead to successful prevention program implementation have been identified through evaluation research.

Contemporary approaches to delinquency prevention argue that risk factors must first be identified through research and then addressed through a broad range of prevention programs at the family, school, and community levels.

_____________ prevention programs target the general population of youth and include campaigns to prevent smoking and drug use, to promote problem-solving and dispute resolution skills through classroom education, and to provide classes on parenting skills to all parents.

Which theory argues that, in the U.S., the goal of economic success is emphasized without a corresponding emphasis on the legitimate means to achieve success?

Youth enter the child welfare system primarily because of:

Evidence-based practice utilizes ______________ to establish whether particular strategies, methods, and programs effectively reduce the likelihood of delinquent offending.

Cost-benefit analysis of delinquency intervention programs seeks to comprehensively identify and measure the benefits and costs of a program, including those that occur during and after participation in the program.

Approximately 5-10% of all ADHD children are involved in some form of conduct disorder as a child, serious delinquency as an adolescent, and criminal behavior as an adult.

_____________ prevention programs target identified juvenile offenders in order to prevent or eliminate a serious pattern of delinquent offending.

Juvenile delinquency is a component of larger group of problem behaviors that tend to occur together. Which of the following problem behaviors often occurs along with delinquency?

Anomie theory views crime and delinquency as resulting from the social structural characteristic of anomie or normlessness, which frees people to pursue economic success by whatever means necessary.

Which of the following is NOT a standard of evaluation research, used to establish program effectiveness?