Exam 5: Developmental Views of Delinquency: Life Course and Latent Trait

The _____________ pathway escalates to aggressive acts beginning with aggression, leading to physical fighting and then to violence.

Compare and contrast authority conflict, covert, and overt pathways to a delinquent career. Provide examples of each.

According to interactional theory, weak bonds lead kids to acquire deviant peer relations and engage in delinquency; delinquency weakens conventional bonds and strengthens relations with deviant peers.

Pseudomaturity is characteristic of life course persisters who tend to engage in early sexuality and drug use.

Latent trait theories assume that an individual's behavior is linked less to personal change than to changes in the surrounding world.

The authority conflict pathway, identified by Loeber and his associates, begins at an early age with stubborn behavior; it leads to defiance and then to authority avoidance.

A person with high self control is not likely to:

Gottfredson and Hirschi attribute low self-control to inadequate ______________ practices.

Latent trait theories assume a physical or psychological trait makes some people delinquency-prone.

Developmental theorists believe that crime is but one of a group of antisocial behaviors that, clustered together, are known as ______________________.

___________________ is characteristic of life course persisters, who tend to engage in early sexuality and drug use.

According to development theory, the best predictor of future criminality is:

According to age-graded theory, building social capital and strong social bonds reduces the likelihood of long-term deviance; as people go through their life course the factors that influence their behavior undergo change.

Someone that is _______________ lacks in thought or deliberation in decision making.

Which of the following behaviors would a person with low self-control not be likely to exhibit?

Identify and compare the two types of developmental theories discussed in the text.

A cornerstone of age-graded theory is the influence of _______________ on behavior.

The life course perspective contends that disruptions in life's major transitions can be destructive and ultimately can promote criminality.

According to psychologist Terrie Moffitt, ____________________ exhibit early onset of delinquency that persists into adulthood.

According to Gottfredson and Hirschi, individuals who are impulsive, insensitive, physical, risk takers, short sighted, and nonverbal are said to have: