At Risk and Correlations
Data & Data Collection
Theory
Theory II
MISC
100
25 percent of those under the age of 17 are vulnerable to negative consequences of school failure and early sexuality. This is referred to as being...
What is at risk?
100
This government agency collects and compiles data for the UCR
What is the FBI
100
Beccaria and Bentham are associated with which theory?
What is classical/choice
100
In age-graded theory, these are the two critical turning points in people's lives
What is career and marriage
100
This concept means that the state is acting in place of the parent
What is parens patriae
200
The following is an example of this type of correlation The higher one's self-control, the lower their propensity to commit crime.
What is negative or inverse
200
This official crime data estimates the number of personal and household crimes, provides detailed information, and does not include victimless crime
What is the NCVS
200
Shaw and McKay are associated with this theory
What is social disorganization
200
The number of pathways to delinquency according to life course theory
What is three
200
These are the four critical factors that may affect delinquency
What are interpersonal interactions, community ecological conditions, social change, and SES
300
This theory seeks to explain women's involvement in crime through their increase power and freedom.
What is the liberation hypothesis
300
This is an informal method of gathering data on juvenile offending
What is self-report surveys
300
The least common response to strain according to Merton
What is retreatism
300
Operation weed and seed, social services, community activism, etc. are all policy implications of this type of theory
What is social structure
300
These include maturation, biological changes, greater responsibility, and increased risk
What are reasons for aging out of crime
400
This region of the country has a higher crime rate than the rest of the country
What is the south
400
Data retrieved via this source has demonstrated that a larger proportion of the youth population are committing crime than is reported.
What are self-report surveys
400
This theory assumes that criminals are of at least average intelligence
What is learning theory?
400
These are the adaptions to strain theory that Agnew included in the general strain theory
What is addition of negative stimuli and removal of positive stimuli
400
Wilson, Delulio, and Wolfgang are associated with this myth regarding juvenile offending
What is the superpredator myth
500
The six risk factors for greater involvement in delinquency.
What are poverty, health and mortality, family problems, substandard living conditions, inadequate education, and dealing with a modern world
500
One weakness of this official data source is that children under the age of 12 are not included
What is the NCVS
500
Age of onset and problem behavior syndrome are associated with this theory
What is Life course
500
Motivated offender, suitable target, and lack of guardianship
What are the three requirements for a crime according to Routine Activities Theory
500
This is the difference between social process and social structure theories
What is social process theories focus on the way in which one learns from others, while structure theories focus on the environment
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