Exam 11: Developmental Theories: From Delinquency to Crime to Desistance

_______ are statistically normal youths whose offending reflects adaptive responses to conditions and events that temporarily divert them from their prosocial trajectories.

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Question 41

According to Terrie Moffitt's dual pathway developmental theory, there is a third group of youths who refrain from delinquency altogether.This group is known as

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Question 42

What is a risk factor?

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Question 43

Developmental theories support the same kind of family-based nurturant strategies supported by biosocial, social, and self-control theories.

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Question 44

In Moffitt's theory, the ______ gap is the gap between the average age of puberty and the acquisition of socially responsible adult roles.

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Question 45

What distinguishes delinquency from criminality?

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Question 46

One valid critique of developmental theories is that they are not dynamic enough to account for changes in criminal risk factors over time.

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Question 47

Which of the following has not been identified as a protective factor for delinquency?

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Question 48

The antisocial behavior of life-course persistent offenders tends to

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Question 49

The age at which excitatory transmitters start to decrease and the inhibitory transmitters start to increase, thus decreasing a person's propensity for antisocial behavior, is ______ years of age.

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Question 50

According to Farrington, individuals with ______ tend to come from poor families, to be poorly socialized, low on anxiety, impulsive, sensation seeking, have low IQ, and fail in school.

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Question 51

What are adolescent-limited (AL) offenders?

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Question 52

It has been found that ADHD can be entirely attributed to environmental, not genetic, factors.

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Question 53

Define social capital.

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Question 54

The vast majority of juvenile offenders are

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Question 55

The age-crime curve is a pattern of offending characterized by low delinquency in adolescence with a steady increase in criminal behavior throughout adulthood.

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Question 56

_____ theories are dynamic in that they emphasize that individuals develop along different pathways and over the course of their lives.

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Question 57

What is a latent trait?

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Question 58

Describe Moffitt's dual pathway developmental theory, being sure to distinguish between LCP and AL.Do you agree with this theory? Why or why not?

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Question 59

ADHD is more prevalent among males than females.

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_______ are statistically normal youths whose offending reflects adaptive responses to conditions and events that temporarily divert them from their prosocial trajectories.

According to Terrie Moffitt's dual pathway developmental theory, there is a third group of youths who refrain from delinquency altogether.This group is known as

What is a risk factor?

Developmental theories support the same kind of family-based nurturant strategies supported by biosocial, social, and self-control theories.

In Moffitt's theory, the ______ gap is the gap between the average age of puberty and the acquisition of socially responsible adult roles.

What distinguishes delinquency from criminality?

One valid critique of developmental theories is that they are not dynamic enough to account for changes in criminal risk factors over time.

Which of the following has not been identified as a protective factor for delinquency?

The antisocial behavior of life-course persistent offenders tends to

The age at which excitatory transmitters start to decrease and the inhibitory transmitters start to increase, thus decreasing a person's propensity for antisocial behavior, is ______ years of age.

According to Farrington, individuals with ______ tend to come from poor families, to be poorly socialized, low on anxiety, impulsive, sensation seeking, have low IQ, and fail in school.

What are adolescent-limited (AL) offenders?

It has been found that ADHD can be entirely attributed to environmental, not genetic, factors.

Define social capital.

The vast majority of juvenile offenders are

The age-crime curve is a pattern of offending characterized by low delinquency in adolescence with a steady increase in criminal behavior throughout adulthood.

_____ theories are dynamic in that they emphasize that individuals develop along different pathways and over the course of their lives.

What is a latent trait?

Describe Moffitt's dual pathway developmental theory, being sure to distinguish between LCP and AL.Do you agree with this theory? Why or why not?

ADHD is more prevalent among males than females.

An Overview of Crime and Criminology

Measuring Crime and Criminal Behavior

Victimology: Exploring the Experience of Victimization

The Early Schools of Criminology

Crime As Choice: Rationality, Emotion, and Criminal Behavior

Social Structural Theories

Social Process Theories

Critical and Feminist Theories

Psychosocial Theories: Individual Traits and Criminal Behavior

Biosocial Approaches

Crimes of Violence

Terrorism

Property Crime

Public Order Crime

White-Collar Crime

Organized Crime

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