Deck 1: What Is a Juvenile Delinquent

Question 1

The period between puberty and adulthood in human development that typically falls between the ages of 13 and 19.

A) adolescence
B) senescence
C) juvenescence
D) maturity

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Gender is an _____ status.

A) allowed
B) ascribed
C) achieved
D) allotted

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which form of development is not a criterion that is used to treat juveniles differently than adults?

A) emotional
B) intellectual
C) physical
D) career

Answer 3

D

Question 4

This is an age-related status that has legal ramifications, used to refer to those who aren't yet adults.

A) child
B) kid
C) youth
D) juvenile

Question 5

What is a juvenile who has broken the law?

A) a criminal
B) a youthful offender
C) a child convict
D) a juvenile delinquent

Question 6

Resisting correction, rehabilitation, or punishment refers to being _____.

A) bad
B) delinquent
C) a status offender
D) incorrigible

Question 7

When the court determines that a youth has violated a law, the youth is _____.

A) found guilty
B) disposed of
C) waived
D) adjudicated a delinquent

Question 8

Which is not a status offense?

A) homicide
B) truancy
C) running away from home
D) drinking under age

Question 9

A child who needs court protection because his or her health or welfare is endangered due to the parent's inability, through no fault of their own, to provide proper care and supervision is _____.

A) dependent
B) delinquent
C) truant
D) neglected

Question 10

Which of the following activities is considered deviant for juveniles?

A) smoking tobacco
B) using illicit drugs
C) skipping school
D) all of the above

Question 11

Which theme can be linked to youths' attempts to display adulthood?

A) fear of risk-taking
B) desire for economic dependence
C) autonomy from adult control
D) little interest in displays of masculinity

Question 12

This refers to the philosophy that the government is the ultimate guardian of all children or disabled adults.

A) mens rea
B) lex talionis
C) ex post facto
D) parens patriae

Question 13

What is the idea that one must look beyond the obvious to evaluate how social location influences the way one considers society?

A) cohort
B) social control
C) sociological imagination
D) typology

Question 14

Which branch of the government defines offenses?

A) legislative
B) judicial
C) executive
D) none of the above

Question 15

This term describes crime that goes unreported to police and criminal justice officials and is never quantified.

A) dark figure of crime
B) crime in the shadows
C) unknown crime
D) invisible crime

Question 16

The best-known method for reporting crime in the United States is _____.

A) academic research
B) the Uniform Crime Reports
C) victimization studies
D) the National Crime Reporting System

Question 17

Which is a reason that a victim might not report an offense?

A) The victim wants to prosecute the offender.
B) The victim believes the police will successfully apprehend the offender.
C) The victim doesn't define the incident as a criminal offense.
D) all of the above

Question 18

The UCR only records the most serious incident in a set of incidents. This is called the _____ rule.

A) follow-up
B) hierarchy
C) seriousness
D) index-crime

Question 19

The Uniform Crime Reports are heavily skewed toward _____ crime.

A) juvenile
B) street
C) violent
D) all of the above

Question 20

Which form of research asks participants to tell researchers what offenses they've committed?

A) self-report studies
B) UCR data collection
C) victimization surveys
D) none of the above

Question 21

Which is not a common reason that people might not report their offenses in a self-report study?

A) embarrassment
B) fear of arrest
C) fear of action
D) a desire to skew the study

Question 22

This measurement tool records every offense that happens in any criminal incident.

A) National Incident-Based Reporting System
B) National Crime Victimization Survey
C) Uniform Crime Reports
D) all of the above

Question 23

Which is the correct crime rate for a town of 200,000 people that has had 358 reported offenses?

A) 716 offenses per 100,000 people
B) 100,000 offenses per 200,000 people
C) 358 offenses per 100,000 people
D) 179 offenses per 100,000 people

Question 24

For recording purposes, the UCR considers all people under this age as juveniles regardless of state definitions.

A) 12
B) 16
C) 18
D) 21

Question 25

Which is not a common reason that people might not report their crimes in a self-report study?

A) embarrassment
B) fear of arrest
C) fear of action
D) a desire to skew the study

Question 26

When does delinquent behavior tend to peak?

A) late childhood and early teens
B) late middle age
C) the late teens and early twenties
D) the early thirties

Question 27

Which are the types of offenses most often committed by juveniles that aren't status offenses?

A) burglary and arson
B) forcible and statutory rape
C) arson and vandalism
D) homicide and assault

Question 28

Victimizers of children may be _____.

A) strangers
B) family members
C) adult or youth acquaintances
D) all of the above

Question 29

What may affect a youth who has been victimized?

A) guilt
B) ignorance of victimization
C) long-lasting harm
D) all of the above

Question 30

What is a conceptual grouping of items into categories so they can be considered separately and compared?

A) a typology
B) a methodology
C) cohort
D) list

Question 31

Which term describes youths who have done things that aren't criminal offenses but are considered undesirable for young people to do?

A) criminals
B) convicts
C) special offenders
D) status offenders

Question 32

Why are status offenses enacted?

A) for the welfare of children
B) for the protection of society
C) to get tough on crime
D) out of concern for parents

Question 33

Some scholars have argued that most delinquency is committed by _____.

A) gang members
B) students
C) athletes
D) drug users

Question 34

Who helps decide who enters the juvenile justice system?

A) police
B) parents
C) schools
D) all of the above

Question 35

What is meant by calling the juvenile justice system "the system of last resort?"

A) The juvenile justice system is the only institution that deals with children.
B) The juvenile justice system can use capital punishment.
C) The juvenile justice system can't pass its failures on to other institutions.
D) The juvenile justice system is like a vacation resort.

Question 36

Making the transition from child to adult involves a change in status, rights, responsibilities, and self-concept.

Question 37

Growing up is the same in all cultures and generations.

Question 38

Ascribed statuses are easily changed.

Question 39

Society discriminates according to age.

Question 40

The major strength of the Uniform Crime Reports is that it measures the dark figure of crime.

Question 41

UCR data can't give a comprehensive picture of crime because it's heavily skewed toward juvenile delinquency.

Question 42

Adults commit more offenses than youths.

Question 43

The National-Incident Based Reporting System provides a better estimate of the sexual victimization of children than the UCR.

Question 44

Modern American culture has many rigid, distinct ceremonies that mark the passage into adulthood.

Question 45

The study of juvenile delinquency does not include young people as victims.

Question 46

Commonwealth v. Fisher affirmed the philosophy of parens patriae.

Question 47

Generation is the total number of people of the same gender born and living at about the same time.

Question 48

Gang membership is highly correlated with delinquent behavior.

Question 49

Juveniles are responsible for a very low percentage of property offenses.

Question 50

The juvenile justice system controls who enters it.