Juvenile Delinquency Test Preparation
Course Introduction
This course offers an in-depth exploration of juvenile delinquency, focusing on the social, psychological, and environmental factors that contribute to youth offending. Students will examine the historical development of the juvenile justice system, major theoretical perspectives explaining delinquent behavior, and the effectiveness of intervention and prevention strategies. The curriculum also covers trends in juvenile crime, the role of family, peers, schools, and communities, as well as the impact of race, class, and gender. Through case studies, research analysis, and current policy discussions, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and approaches involved in addressing juvenile delinquency in contemporary society.
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Juvenile Justice Policies Programs and Practices 3rd Edition by Robert Taylor
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Chapter 1: The Juvenile Justice System
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Q1) Hearings held in juvenile court to determine if the juvenile committed an offense are called ________.
A)a judgment
B)a guilt verdict
C)an adjudication
D)a verdict
E)a finding
Answer: C
Q2) A document that states the allegations against a juvenile and requests a juvenile court to adjudicate the juvenile is called a petition.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) A legal doctrine in which the state plays the role of the parent is called stare decisis.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: History of the Juvenile Justice System
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Q1) Juveniles have always had the same rights in delinquency proceedings as adults have had in criminal proceedings.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The first American penal institution to address juvenile issues specifically was the Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The first reform school for boys was _____________________.
A)The Lyman School for Boys
B)The Society for the Prevention of Pauperism House of Refuge
C)The Elmira Reformatory
D)The Chicago House of Refuge
E)The Davenport Boys Home
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Juvenile Crime, Criminals, and Victims
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Q1) According to your text, the most comprehensive official measure of crime in the United States is _________________.
A)the Michigan State University Survey of Crime
B)the Justice Department Crime Analysis
C)the Uniform Crime Report
D)self report studies
E)the News and World Report Study
Answer: C
Q2) A national survey of households on the subject of victimization that is conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics is called ___________________.
A)The National Crime Study
B)The National Crime Victimization Survey
C)The National Gang Crime Research Center
D)The Uniform Crime Report
E)The Crime Census
Answer: B
Q3) What is the "hierarchy rule?"
Answer: Answers will vary
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Chapter 4: Choice, Deterrence, Biological, and Psychological Theories
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Q1) The return to a pattern of reaction characteristic of a less mature mode of adjustment is called regression.
A)True
B)False
Q2) An endomorph has a body structure that is soft, round, and fat.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The focus of the positive school is on __________________.
A)punishment
B)deterrence
C)rehabilitation
D)incapacitation
Q4) According to the morphological approach, _____________________.
A)criminals are socialized to be criminal
B)criminals have psychological problems which causes their criminality
C)criminals need more educational training
D)criminals are biologically different from noncriminals
E)none of the above
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Q5) What were the three reasons for a renewed interest in the classical school of thought in the late 1970s?
Chapter 5: Social Structure, Social Process, and Social
Reaction Theories
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Q1) The factor that began the process of delinquency was a lack of power in the workplace according to Colvin and Pauly.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Explain the two major factors that influence delinquency.
Q3) According to Cohen, although members of the lower class have norms and values that differ from those of the middle class, lower-class families can teach their children the proper socialization techniques necessary for middle-class membership.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to Sutherland's differential association theory, delinquency is a learned behavior.
A)True B)False
Q5) Hirschi stated that there were four elements of the social bond: attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Delinquency Prevention and Intervention
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Q1) The philosophy behind many delinquency prevention programs is ____________.
A)teach juveniles the skills they need
B)educate juveniles so they will not recidivate
C)provide programs to occupy a juvenile's time so that they will not commit crimes
D)all of the above
Q2) Research has shown that immediately after school is a prime time for delinquents to commit crime.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A quick fix, or a cure all, is sometimes called a ______________.
A)panacea
B)program
C)philosophy
D)a treatment strategy
E)all of the above
Q4) Define delinquency prevention.
Q5) Project Head Start was begun under President Lyndon Johnson.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Police and Juveniles
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Q1) What do the terms CHINS, CINS, MINS, and PINS mean?
Q2) A municipal ordinance that restricts the hours a juvenile can be out in public is called a curfew.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The D.A.R.E.program has shown significant success in reducing drug use among juveniles.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A philosophical movement in policing designed to make the community a co-active partner with law enforcement was called ________________.
A)the traditional or political period
B)the professional period
C)the community oriented period
D)the profiling period
Q5) List the factors that influence the police officers decision to take a juvenile into custody.
Q6) How do some police officers view juvenile assignments?
Q7) What are the peak hours for juvenile crime?
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Chapter 8: Juvenile Law and Procedure
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Q1) Explain the case of Kent v.United States.
Q2) What were the rights granted to juveniles in the case of In re Gault?
Q3) In the case of Mckeiver v.Pennsylvania the court outlined four reasons for denying juveniles the right to a jury trial.What were those four reasons?
Q4) In the case of In re Winship, Winship was sentenced to 18 months in a training school for stealing money from a women's purse.How old was WInship?
A)12
B)14
C)16
D)18
E)21
Q5) Explain the case of Breed v.Jones.
Q6) According to your text, prior to landmark decisions by the U.S.Supreme Court, how were juveniles treated?
Q7) Explain the case of Fare v.Michael C.
Q8) Because of their age, the Fourth Amendment does not apply to juveniles. A)True B)False
Q9) Explain the main constitutional issue in Kent v.United States.
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Chapter 9: The Juvenile Court
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Q1) The juvenile court judge possesses tremendous power over the delinquent and has the ability to remove the delinquent from his or her family and place the juvenile in a secure facility outside the home.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe all the ways that juvenile court judges are selected to serve.
Q3) Before the establishment of the first juvenile court, there was only one system of justice.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Who has the primary responsibility for the operation of the juvenile court in most jurisdictions?
A)the Prosecutor
B)the Defense Attorney
C)the Juvenile Probation Officer
D)the Social Worker
E)the Juvenile Court Judge
Q5) What is the difference between a status offense and a criminal act?
Q6) What do the terms CINS, CHINS, PINS, JINS and MINS mean?
Q7) Describe the concept of parens patriae.
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Chapter 10: Juveniles in the Criminal Justice System
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Q1) Which educational group is most likely to believe that juveniles should receive more lenient treatment than adults for violent crime?
A)College post-graduate
B)College graduate
C)Some college
D)High School graduate
Q2) The minimum age that a juvenile may be waived to adult court in Kansas and Vermont is ___________.
A)10
B)11
C)12
D)13
E)14
Q3) Under presumptive waiver, the prosecution bears the burden of proof and must justify to the judge why the juvenile should be waived.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is a discretionary waiver?
Q5) Explain the case of Stanford v.Kentucky.
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Chapter 11: Community-Based Corrections for Juveniles
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Q1) The juvenile correctional system in the United States grew in a bifurcated or two-pronged manner.Explain each of those prongs.
Q2) What are the seven responsibilities of probation officers?
Q3) What are victim impact statements and how are they used?
Q4) This document explains the probation process and outlines the general conditions of probation and any special conditions imposed.
A)the Presentence Investigation
B)the sentencing disposition
C)the probation agreement
D)the social contract
Q5) When youths are required to work a set number of hours doing community improvement work as part of their sentence it is called ______________.
A)school-based probation
B)house arrest
C)shock probation
D)community service
E)relaxed probation
Q6) Describe the program VisionQuest.
Q7) Describe the Outward bound program.
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Chapter 12: Institutional Corrections for Juveniles
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Q1) As many as 40% of youths in correctional facilities may have some type of learning disability.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The boot camp correctional philosophy is essentially guided by the idea that a juvenile delinquent needs structure and discipline in his life.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A temporary facility where juveniles are awaiting either transfer to another facility or release into the community is called ___________________.
A)traditional facility
B)transitional facility
C)juvenile ranch
D)juvenile holding centers
Q4) The majority of juveniles in institutional facilities are simply awaiting trial and have not been adjudicated delinquent.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Gangs and Delinquency
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Q1) What are the five strategies used by communities to combat gangs?
Q2) According to C.Ronald Huff, a type of gang that is primarily involved in using drugs and getting high with little involvement in crime is called a ______________.
A)Hedonistic Gang
B)Instrumental Gang
C)c.Predatory Gang
D)Territorial Gang
E)Prison Gang
Q3) Gang members are responsible for 80% of the drug sales in America.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to C.Ronald Huff, a type of gang that is primarily involved in committing property crime and is actively involved in using drugs is called a _____________.
A)Hedonistic Gang
B)Instrumental Gang
C)c.Predatory Gang
D)Territorial Gang
E)Prison Gang
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Chapter 14: Special Populations
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Q1) Explain paraphilia and its consequences.
Q2) Explain the concept of neglect and compare and contrast with the concept of child abuse.
Q3) Rampage killings can be blamed on ________.
A)video games
B)movies
C)television
D)the Internet
E)none of the above
Q4) Two studies, ____________ and ___________ were published in 2008, focusing on drug use among adolescents between 2006 and 2007.
A)Monitoring the Future Survey, National Survey on Drug Use and Health
B)Evaluating the Past Survey, National Survey on Drug Use and Health
C)Methods of Drug Abuse Survey, National Survey on Drug Use and Health
D)Monitoring the Future Survey, North American Survey on Drug Use and Health Effects
E)none of the above
Q5) Compare and contrast rampage killers and typical murders.
Q6) What are the characteristics of violent juvenile offenders?
Q7) What are the characteristics of chronic juvenile offenders?
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Chapter 15: Future Directions in Juvenile Justice
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Q1) Family empowerment teams are innovative and low-cost intervention strategies that have shown success through reduced recidivism rates and improved psychosocial interaction of youth within the family and community.
A)True
B)False
Q2) __________ is an alternative philosophy and a back-to-basics mission for juvenile justice.
A)The Balanced and Restorative Justice (BARJ) Model
B)The Accountability Model
C)The Community Safety Model
D)The Competency Development Model
E)The Uniform Crime Model
Q3) Present arguments for and against the enactment of parental liability laws.
Q4) Project CRAFT emphasizes competency development, community service, and offender accountability.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Name the three types of specialty courts in the juvenile justice system.
Q6) Name the drawbacks of abolishing the juvenile justice system.
Q7) Name and describe the various programs aimed at preventing crime.
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