Classical and bio/biosocial theories
Programs designed to put children in adult prisons and scare them away from delinquency
What are Scared Straight! programs?
This theorist developed the "code of the streets" perspective
What is Elijah Anderson
A theory that discusses the effects of internal controls
What is self-control theory?
What is the Concentric Zone Model?
These individuals patrol schools
What are SROs/school police?
Said to be the most serious and violent types of offenders according to Lombroso
What are Born Criminals?
A group of youth who collectively engage in delinquent behavior
What is a youth gang?
This element of the social bond has the most empirical support
What is Attachment?
What is Merton's anomie theory?
A national trend wherein children are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems
What is the School-to-Prison Pipeline?
When punishment serves as an example to the offender
What is specific deterrence?
The antithesis of labeling theory
What is deterrence theory?
Impulsive; Self-centered; Prefers simple tasks; Prefers physical tasks; Risk-seekers; Often have volatile temperaments
What are characteristics of low self-control?
The type of adaptation to strain that leads to crime
What is Innovation?
These platforms can create threats to the safety of a school
What are social media platforms?
Locations with a high convergence of motivated offenders, suitable targets, and a lack of guardianship
What are Hot Spots?
Deviance that all youth are believed to engage in
What is primary deviance?
The variable that has been examined the most when testing social learning theory
What are deviant peers?
This theory described three types of youth subcultures, one being a criminal subculture
What is Differential Opportunity Theory?
The authors of this article discussed Assessing the Role of Household Structure and Parent-Child Relationship in Juvenile Delinquency
Who is Jacobsen and Zaatut?
Represents the degree to which some trait is due to genetic influence
What is heritability?
Examples include arrest, conviction, incarceration
What are formal labels?
This major thesis within self-control theory suggests that self-control is the only causal explanation for crime
What is the Spuriousness thesis?
This mediating mechanism explaining how socially disorganized neighborhoods lead to crime was explored by Sampson et al (1999)
What is collective efficacy?
An example of a self-report survey that can be used to sample students in schools
What is The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescence to Adult Health (Add Health), etc?