Deck 4: Data on Delinquency and Juvenile Justice

Question 1

"Official" data are gathered by:

A) governmental agencies that are a part of juvenile justice systems.
B) research experts who have graduate training in statistics.
C) the American Criminal Justice Data Center.
D) agencies that are authorized under state statutory law to collect data.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The UCR is gathered by which agency?

A) ATF
B) CIA
C) FBI
D) Secret Service

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following is not a Part I crime reported by the Uniform Crime Report (UCR)?

A) burglary
B) motor vehicle theft
C) vandalism
D) larceny-theft

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What can UCR arrest data tell us?

A) The number of youth who have committed delinquent acts.
B) The number of arrests made by the police.
C) The number of youths who will appear in juvenile court.
D) All of the above.

Question 5

Which of the following is a strength of UCR data?

A) They provide uniform, nationwide data.
B) They can be used to explore trends in crime and delinquency rates.
C) They provide demographic information about arrested offenders.
D) All of the above.

Question 6

One of the problems with official data, such as the UCR, is that:

A) it only measures some of the crime that comes to the attention of local law enforcement officials.
B) it only asks victims about crimes that they have experienced in the last six months.
C) many people lie to interviewers.
D) it is biased because many police lie about how many people they have arrested.

Question 7

Most victims report crimes they have experienced to the police.

Question 8

Juvenile Court Statistics report data regarding:

A) crime reported to the police.
B) crimes cleared through arrest.
C) juvenile cases handled by juvenile courts.
D) All of the above.

Question 9

The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is an example of what kind of data?

A) official data
B) self-report data
C) victimization data

Question 10

The National Crime Victimization Survey is an inaccurate measure of juvenile delinquency in part because:

A) it asks victims to estimate the age of the offender, which is often inaccurate.
B) victims like to lie and accuse teenagers of crime.
C) only adult crime has real victims.
D) age reporting by offenders is notoriously inaccurate.

Question 11

Which of the following is not a strength of victimization surveys?

A) They provide information about crimes that victims do not report to police.
B) They can be used to estimate the risks of victimization based on demographic characteristics.
C) They include a wider range of offenses than UCR data do.
D) All of the above.

Question 12

What is the most common way to generate self-report data on crime and delinquency?

A) observation
B) questionnaires
C) experiments
D) use of secondary data

Question 13

_______________ surveys gather information from the same individuals at multiple points in time, and are therefore well suited to address questions about changes in delinquent involvement over the life course.

A) Validity-focused
B) Cross-sectional
C) Longitudinal
D) Variable impact

Question 14

Both UCR and NCVS data are better measures of minor offending than of serious crime and delinquency.

Question 15

Self-report surveys of offending reveal much higher rates of offending than do UCR data.

Question 16

The following questions are on Reading 4.1: Hockenberry and Puzzanchera (2017).
-It is relatively easy to compile national juvenile court statistics, given that all juvenile court jurisdictions use the same categories when coding juvenile court data.

Question 17

The following questions are on Reading 4.1: Hockenberry and Puzzanchera (2017).
-Juvenile Court Statistics provides national estimates of both delinquency cases and petitioned status offense cases.

Question 18

The following questions are on Reading 4.1: Hockenberry and Puzzanchera (2017).
-The National Juvenile Court Data Archive makes _____________-level data available to researchers and policymakers.

A) national
B) state
C) local
D) All of the above.

Question 19

The following questions are on Reading 4.2: Sickmund and Puzzanchera (2014).
-Which of the following statements is true regarding trends in victimization rates between 1994 and 2010?

A) Serious violent victimization rates increased for males but decreased for females.
B) For whites, blacks, and Hispanics, serious violent victimization rates decreased.
C) Simple assault victimization rates increased for both males and females.
D) All of the above.

Question 20

The following questions are on Reading 4.2: Sickmund and Puzzanchera (2014).
-The Monitoring the Future survey in 2010 showed that only 20% of high school seniors had used illicit drugs.

Question 21

The following questions are on Reading 4.2: Sickmund and Puzzanchera (2014).
-The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has multiple data collection programs to gather information about juvenile offenders held in residential facilities.