Exam 3: Causes of Juvenile Crime

Match each term with its description. -Walter Reckless

Which of the following paths would Moffitt argue is how delinquency proceeds?

If you were to predict inner qualities from people's physical appearance, you would be a proponent of which of the following studies?

Which theory's initial impetus toward delinquency comes from a weakening of the person's bond to conventional society?

The two constructs of self-control and ________are intended to capture the simultaneous influence of external and internal restraints on behavior.

The Classical School argues that ________.

The psychological origins of delinquency came to be more widely accepted than either the environmental or the biological origins.

A gradual or dramatic change that leads to reshaping of a youth's life from one state to another is called a ________ point.

The Marxist perspective views the state and the law itself as ultimate tools of the economic interests of the ownership class.

Which of the following theories posits that individuals do NOT exercise freedom when committing criminal or delinquent acts?

Which of the following refers to theories that examine the interactions between people and their environments?

Match each term with its description. -Psychopath

A 10-year-old's inability to control sexual and aggressive drives would be best explained by which theory?

Which goal or philosophy of punishment (page 53 in the text) would a proponent of positivism likely support for a 19-year-old serial killer of 5 victims?

Match each term with its description. -Atavism

Social control theory argues that the lower-class culture is characterized by a set of focal concerns, or values, that command widespread attention and a high degree of social involvement.

One of the flaws in Wilson's and Herrnstein's approach is ________.

Reinforcement theory states that behavior is governed by its consequent rewards and punishments, as reflected in the history of the individual.

Each of these psychologists took the insights of psychoanalysis and applied them to the situations of delinquents, EXCEPT for whom?

The doctrine of free will was substituted for the widely accepted concept of theological ________, which saw humans as predestined to do certain actions.