Gender and Delinquency
Choices
School
Policing
Corrections
100

Research shows that young adults who maintain positive lifestyles report having what type of relationships with their parents?

Warm / Caring / Loving

100

Which of the following lowers the risk of engaging in delinquent acts by children living in high-crime areas?

Effective parenting

100

What official term is used to describe being out of school without permission?

Truancy

100

Increased visibility and accountability of police is a mainstay of the __________ model.

community policing

100

A probation agreement represents a ________ between the juvenile and the court.

contract

200

Both girls and boys who mature early are more likely to get involved in deviant behaviors. What type of deviant behaviors are they particularly likely to be involved in?

Party deviance

200

A lawyer or other individual appointed by the court to look after the interest of those who do not have the capacity to assert their own rights is referred to as a

guardian ad litem.

200

Which group of children enter school lagging behind other students?

Economically disadvantaged

200

Warrantless searches are pemited when?

Plain View

Consent

Home Entry (stop harm or destruction of evidence)


200

Restoration rather than retribution or punishment is at the heart of the _______ approach.

restorative justice

300

What is reported to help protect girls at high risk for delinquency from engaging in violent behavior?

Religiosity

300

What acts as the primary source of informal social control for children?

Parents

300

High school dropout rates are highest in which location?

Inner-city

300

The broad latitude given to police to control juvenile behavior includes the ability to take children into custody for their own protection. This is an example of the police using the ability to act

in loco parentis (in place of parents)

300

The monitoring of juvenile offenders by continuously sending a signal back to the central office via a radio transmitter is an example of ___________   _____________   ____________ (3 words) 

active electronic monitoring

400

What term refers to families in which both husband and wife share similar positions of power and status at home?

Egalitarian

400

Who has the greatest influence over decision-making in adolescence?

Friends

400

What is the most frequent motivation for school shootings?

Revenge

400

A law enforcement philosophy that focuses on addressing the problems underlying incidents of juvenile delinquency rather than the incidents themselves is called

problem-oriented policing.

400

The monitoring of juvenile offenders by continuously sending a signal back to the central office via a radio transmitter is an example of what type of electronic monitoring?

Re-Entry

500

Studies show that females place more focus on which of the following compared to males?

Relationships

500

Which method of gang enforcement relies on police, armed with arrest and search warrants, to enter a neighborhood to make as many arrests of gang members as possible?

Gang Sweeps

500

What term is used to describe certain high schools in which the number of seniors is 60% (or less) of the number of ninth graders?

Drop-out Factory

500

The premise of the community policing model of crime prevention is that the police can carry out their duties more effectively by gaining the _______ and assistance of concerned ________.

trust , citizens (community members / stakeholders

500

Identify Criminogenic needs factors which research has establish are predictive of future criminal conduct

100 points each