Overview of JJS
The name for a sentence in the juvenile court.
What is a disposition?
The term for the period in the 1980s and 1990s when responses to crime were driven by an aggressive shift towards public safety.
What is the tough-on-crime period?
Official data, self-report data, victim data
What are the three types of data sources for measuring juvenile delinquency?
The perspective that suggests crime is a product of free will and rational consideration.
What is the classical school perspective?
Experiences, traits, or issues that make an outcome like delinquency more likely.
What are risk factors?
The decision-making ability of juvenile justice actors.
Cook county, Chicago.
Where was the first juvenile court?
Dark figure of crime.
What are the crimes that are unreported and not known by law enforcement?
Cohesion among residents and their ability to act for the common good of the neighborhood.
What is collective efficacy?
Adolescents who discontinue engaging in criminal activity after age 16.
What are adolescence-limited offenders?
The term used when a juvenile offender's case is transferred from the juvenile court to the adult court.
What is a waiver?
Locked one-room buildings that housed many types of people with many problems (troubled or orphaned children included).
What are almshouses?
The tendency to incorrectly perceive the timeline of past events.
Term to describe when an individual rejects culturally accepted goals and legitimate means, and replaces them with new ones.
What is rebellion?
School difficulties, academic failure, truancy, and bullying.
What are school-related risk factors?