• “Delinquency is a result of youths’ desire to conform to lower-class neighborhood values that conflict with those of the larger society.” This statement most closely reflects this theory.
What is Cultural Deviance Theory?
100
________________ are questionnaire or survey techniques that ask subjects to reveal their own participation in delinquent or criminal acts.
What are Self-Reports?
100
One aspect of this theory contends that children will model their behavior according to the reactions they receive from others; the behavior of adults, and the behavior they view on television and in the movies.
What is Social Learning Theory?
100
According to Gluecks’ research, the harbinger of a delinquent career is _______________________.
What is early onset?
100
This aims to reduce opportunities to commit crimes by increasing the effort or the risks of criminal activity or by reducing the rewards attached to delinquent acts.
What is Situational Crime Prevention?
200
This type of theory of crime looks at the onset, continuity, and termination of a delinquent career.
What are Development Theories?
200
Compiled by the FBI, this is the most widely used source of national crime and delinquency statistics reporting crimes known to the police and the number of persons arrested.
What is the Uniform Crime Report (UCR)?
200
These theories tie delinquency rates to socioeconomic conditions and cultural values; areas that experience high levels of poverty and social disorganization will also have high delinquency rates.
What are Social Structure Theories?
200
This refers to a sense of injustice felt when the poor and the rich live in close physical proximity to one another
What is Relative Deprivation?
200
These types of theorist is most likely to assert that criminal behavior is learned primarily in interpersonal groups.
What are Differential Association Theorists?
300
These theories see delinquency as the result of an individual having weakened bonds to family, school, and peers.
What are Social Control Theories?
300
This is a comprehensive nationwide survey of victimization sponsored by the federal government which provides information about victims, offenders, and crimes.
What is the National Crime Victimization Survey?
300
According to Robert Merton, this occurs when individuals feel social and psychological strain due to a lack of acceptable means for achieving success.
What is Anomie?
300
This is a family style wherein the father is the final authority on all family matters and exercises complete control over his wife and children.
What is paternalistic?
300
This concept describes a situation where anti-social behavior peaks in adolescence and then diminishes for most offenders.
What are adolescent limited offenders?
400
This theory holds that delinquent behavior is a rational choice made by a motivated offender who perceives that the chances of gain outweigh any possible punishment or loss
What is Choice Theory?
400
This is the nation's most important ongoing self-report survey.
What is Monitoring the Future (MTF)?
400
These theories hold that delinquency is a result of a person’s interaction with critical elements of socialization.
What are Social Process Theories?
400
According to Agnew's General Strain Theory, adolescents engage in delinquency as a result of these.
What are Negative Affective States?
400
This theory states that delinquent acts are uncontrollable, irrational behaviors caused in part by an individual’s mental and physical traits.
What is Cognitive Theory?
500
This theory centers around a view of society in which an elite class uses the law as a means of meeting threats to its status.
What is Critical Theory?
500
This provides the most complete picture of crime in the United States.
What is a combination of the UCR, NCVS, and Self-Report Surveys?
500
In this theory, sociologist Robert Agnew argues that there are actually more sources of strain than Merton realized.
What is General Strain Theory?
500
These allowed for the appointment of overseers to place destitute or neglected children as servants in the homes of the affluent, where they were trained in agricultural, trade, or domestic services.
What are Poor Laws?
500
Developmental theorists believe that crime is but one of a group of antisocial behaviors that, clustered together, are known as this.