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Everything But The Kitchen Sink
100
According to this theory, social behavior is determined by the way society reacts to individuals and the way individuals react to society
What is Social Reaction Theory?
100
These combine "get tough" elements with education, substance abuse treatment, and social skills training.
What is Boot Camp?
100
n this theory, sociologist Robert Agnew argues that there are actually more sources of strain than Merton realized.
What is General Strain Theory?
100
This is someone who has access to criminal networks and shares information with authorities in exchange for money or special treatment under conditions of anonymity.
What is an Informant?
100
These are social workers who went out into the community and established close relationships with juvenile gangs with the goal of modifying gang behavior to conform to conventional behaviors and helping gang members get jobs and education opportunities.
What are Detached Street Workers?
200
This theory, developed by Lombroso, reflects the idea that delinquents manifest physical anomalies that make them biologically and physiologically similar to our primitive ancestors, savage throwbacks to an earlier stage of human evolution.
What is Criminal Atavism?
200
During this an offender is required to stay home between specified times, and they are monitored through random phone calls and visits, and by electronic monitoring.
What is House Arrest?
200
This theory focuses on the association between biological makeup, environmental conditions, and antisocial behaviors.
What is Biosocial Theory?
200
This is a small group of friends who share activities and confidences.
What is a Clique?
200
This type of gang engages in serious delinquent behavior while avoiding drug dealing and usage.
What is Serious Delinquent Gang?
300
This theory best reflects the branch of psychology that holds that the human personality is controlled by unconscious mental processes developed early in childhood.
What is Psychodynamic Theory?
300
Education officials have implemented numerous programs to make schools more effective instruments of delinquency prevention. The _______________ strategy focuses on establishing school management and disciplinary programs that deter crime, such as locker searches.
What is Environmental?
300
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?
300
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?
300
Education officials have implemented numerous programs to make schools more effective instruments of delinquency prevention. The _______________ strategy focuses on increasing students’ awareness about the dangers of drug abuse and delinquency.
What is Cognitive?
400
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?
400
This is a contract between the offender and the court which involves supervision and adherence to other conditions.
What is Probation?
400
According to _______________, females are less delinquent than males because their social roles provide fewer opportunities to commit crimes.
What is Liberal Feminists?
400
According to _______________, substance abuse is one of many problem behaviors that begin early in life and remain throughout life.
What is Problem Behavior Syndrome?
400
According to ______________ feminists, the key to preventing delinquency is empowering women socially, economically, and legally.
What is Critical?
500
This is a developmental theory that modifies social control theory by integrating concepts from biosocial, psychological, routine activities, and rational choice theories.
What is General Theory of Crime?
500
According to development theory, the best predictor of future criminality is this.
What is past behavior?
500
According to this theory, delinquency is a function of personal predispositions such as temperament, personality, hormones, or genetics.
What is Trait Theory?
500
This pathway describes a situation where a delinquent career begins with minor, underhanded behavior and eventually escalates into more serious criminality.
What is Covert?
500
_______________ is an explanation for the relationship between gang membership and delinquency, which states that kids with a history of crime and violence join gangs and maintain their persistent delinquency as members.
What is Selection Hypothesis?
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