Exam 2: The Nature and Extent of Delinquency

List and discuss five factors that influence teen crime trends discussed in the text.

​According to data in the text, 12- to 24- year-olds are most likely to become victims of violent crime.The highest age group after this is the 50- to 64- year-olds who often fall prey to juvenile violence crime perpetration.

The idea that chronic juvenile offenders are likely to continue violating the law as adults is called:

Because many victims do not report their experiences to the police,the UCR has been adjusted to address the issue of nonreporting of crime.

Research shows,contrary to media reports,that minority group ​members are less likely to be stopped and arrested than European American youths.

Economist Steven Levitt believes that ___________________ may help control delinquency.

According to the structural bias model,if differences in the delinquency rate are valid,then their source can be traced to the discrimination that pervades American society,resulting in race-based economics and social disparity.

___________________ theory suggests that as the size of the African American population increases,the amount of social control imposed against African American by police grows proportionately.

Which of the following statements about the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is false?

The ____________________  rate refers to the number of people who are victims of criminal acts.

Which statement is false when attempting to explain this disproportionate minority group involvement in serious crime and contact with the juvenile justice system?

The aging-out process of criminal behavior is also referred to as:

Which of the following is one of the major criticisms of official crime data?

While the vast majority of delinquency is committed by males,which one of Clare's offenses is most common for girls?

According to the latest NCVS data,criminal victimization has risen slightly over the last 10 years.​

Because the UCR arrest statistics are _______________ by suspect's age,they can be used to estimate adolescent delinquency.

While victimization surveys may capture crimes victims did not report to the police,such surveys are still not without issues. Among those issues are:

The UCR uses three methods to express crime data.Which of the following is not one of these three methods?

While chronic juvenile offenders account for a large percentage of the overall amount of juvenile crime,there is limited research to indicate that these chronic juvenile offenders continue offending into adulthood.​

In 2010,juveniles were responsible for about ___ percent of the property crime arrests.