Juvenile Justice Final Test Solutions
Course Introduction
Juvenile Justice explores the legal processes, policies, and practices that govern how society addresses juvenile delinquency and youth offenders. The course examines the historical development of the juvenile justice system, its philosophical foundations, and how it differs from the adult criminal justice system. Students will analyze the roles of law enforcement, the courts, and correctional agencies in managing youth crime, as well as issues such as diversion, rehabilitation, due process, and the impact of socio-economic factors on juvenile behavior. The course also covers recent reforms and debates surrounding juvenile justice, including restorative justice approaches and challenges related to recidivism, equity, and effectiveness.
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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) The process through which a juvenile court relinquishes jurisdiction over the juvenile offender and the case is processed in adult court is called ___________.
A)mens rea
B)a waiver
C)processing
D)adult transfer
E)criminalization
Answer: B
Q2) When a juvenile is sent to an institution, camp, ranch, or group home it is called
A)justice
B)residential placement
C)probation
D)parole
E)community service
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: History of the Juvenile Justice System
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Q1) The legal acceptance of parens patriae was established in the case of
A)In re Gault
B)Ex Parte Crouse
C)McKeiver v.Pennsylvania
D)In re T.Sawyer
E)Pennsylvania v.Quakers
Answer: B
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 practice of selling children into service to a business person or wealthy person was called the estate system.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Juvenile Crime, Criminals, and Victims
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Q1) The way in which the number of cases processed through the juvenile justice system decreases at each successive step is called ________________.
A)diminishment
B)reduction
C)the liberal effect
D)the shrinkage factor
E)the funnel effect
Answer: E
Q2) The text offers several explanations for the general declines in juvenile crime beginning in 1994.Which of these explanations emphasizes the role of increased deterrence?
A)punitive explanation
B)societal changes explanation
C)community policing/community justice explanation
D)regression to the mean explanation
Answer: A
Q3) The presence of a father in a home reduces the likelihood of a delinquent son.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Choice, Deterrence, Biological, and Psychological Theories
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Q1) The term atavism means psychologically disturbed.
A)True
B)False
Q2) An ectomorph is a body structure that is muscular, firm, and strong.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the classical school, behavior is rational and a product of
A)biological determinism
B)divine intervention
C)free will
D)decision models
E)heredity
Q4) What are the four assumptions of deterrence theory?
Q5) The return to a pattern of reaction characteristic of a less mature mode of adjustment is called regression.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe in detail the Classical School of Criminology.
Q7) Explain Karl O.Christiansen's work on delinquency and twins. Page 6
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Chapter 5: Social Structure, Social Process, and Social
Reaction Theories
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Q1) 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
Q2) Describe the five techniques of neutralization.
Q3) ____________ sought to explain why juvenile crime rates were so high in an area of the city characterized by urban decay.
A)Shaw and McKay
B)Merton
C)Agnew
D)Cloward and Ohlin
E)Cohen
Q4) How can lower-class youths achieve middle class status?
Q5) What does it mean to have access to illegitimate opportunity structure?
Q6) Explain how life course theories are different from social learning and social control theories.
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Q7) Explain social structure theories and name the three major social structure theories.
Chapter 6: Delinquency Prevention and Intervention
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Q1) The ____________ program uses the contacts that police officers make in the course of their duties to identify youth who are at risk of becoming involved in violent behavior, gangs, substance abuse, or other delinquent activities.
A)D.A.R.E.
B)SHIELD
C)Children at Risk
D)Families and Schools Together
E)Big Brothers/Big Sisters
Q2) The use of diversion and prevention programs as a means to bring more juveniles under court control instead of as an alternative to formal processing is called
A)corralling
B)enhancing
C)net widening
D)institutionalization
E)community corrections
Q3) A quick fix, or a cure all, is sometimes called a panacea.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Police and Juveniles
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Q1) The D.A.R.E.program has shown significant success in reducing drug use among juveniles.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A police program in which officers go to school to educate youths on the dangers of gangs is _________________.
A)D.A.R.E.
B)G.R.E.A.T.
C)G.A.N.G.S.
D)C.O.P.S.
Q3) In 2007, juveniles accounted for _______ of all violent crime arrests.
A)5%
B)16%
C)25%
D)35%
E)45%
Q4) Describe how police explorer programs work to reduce delinquency.Use the Orlando Police Explorers as an example.
Q5) Explain the traditional, professional, and the community-oriented periods of policing.
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Chapter 8: Juvenile Law and Procedure
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Q1) Curfew laws apply only to juveniles.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The phrase parens patriae means __________________.
A)the parental authority
B)in place of the parents
C)the parent protectors
D)the King as parent
E)parent of the country
Q3) What does the Uniform Juvenile Court Act (UJCA) state?
Q4) The phrase in loco parentis translates as _______________.
A)the parental authority
B)in place of the parents
C)the parent protectors
D)the King as parent
E)parent of the country
Q5) The courts have held that school authorities may question a student without giving him the Miranda warnings.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: The Juvenile Court
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Q1) The process by which a juvenile pleads guilty in exchange for concessions made by the prosecutor is called a plea bargain.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In states that have an arraignment hearing, the juvenile is made aware of his or her rights at that hearing.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A status offense is an act committed by a juvenile that would not be considered a crime if committed by an adult.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the services provides by the Community Services Program Inc.
Q5) 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
Q6) What occurs at a detention hearing?
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Chapter 10: Juveniles in the Criminal Justice System
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Q1) In which case did the Supreme Court rule that is was unconstitutional to execute a mentally retarded person?
A)Stanford v.Kentucky
B)Atkins v.Virginia
C)Savage v.McAninch
D)Roper v.Simmons
Q2) Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden were tried for the crime of ________________.
A)selling drugs
B)rape
C)murder
D)auto theft
E)robbery
Q3) A type of legislative waiver that mandates that all offenses a juvenile commits after having been waived to adult court and convicted will also be handled in adult court is called __________.
A)once an adult, always an adult
B)three strikes and your out
C)repeat offender waiver
D)discretionary judicial waiver
E)multiple offender waiver
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Chapter 11: Community-Based Corrections for Juveniles
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Q1) What are the seven major variables that influence the final disposition of a juvenile's case?
Q2) Group homes are used for the placement of gangs so that they can all be in the same home.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are the five phases of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency for ISP programs?
Q4) Community corrections is a broad term used to capture a variety of correctional alternatives with one common characteristic: they are less restrictive than institutional corrections, in that they are literally operated in the community.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The juvenile correctional system in the United States grew in a bifurcated or two-pronged manner.Explain each of those prongs.
Q6) Oliver Twist was a story about a wayward juvenile.
A)True B)False
Q7) What are the seven responsibilities of probation officers?
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Chapter 12: Institutional Corrections for Juveniles
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Q1) An order by a juvenile court judge putting the juvenile in the custody of a state juvenile correctional authority, or another specific juvenile correctional facility, is called a
A)writ
B)waiver
C)consent degree
D)commitment
E)confinement authorization
Q2) The majority of placements of juveniles in secured institutions are in private facilities.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The proportion of blacks in juvenile detention facilities actually decreased in the last 10 years.
A)True
B)False
Q4) List the four primary goals of corrections.
Q5) List the various jobs that exist in correctional facilities.
Q6) Describe some of the problems educators encounter in juvenile institutions.
Q7) Explain the pros and cons of juvenile boot camps.
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Chapter 13: Gangs and Delinquency
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Q1) A response to gangs that includes counseling and other direct attempts to change the values of youth in order to make gang involvement less likely is called
A)community organization
B)opportunities provision
C)organizational change and development
D)social intervention
E)suppression
Q2) According to the National Youth Gang Center, how many youth gangs and youth gang members are there in the United States?
Q3) What is the Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention (STEP) Act?
Q4) According to C.Ronald Huff, a type of gang that is primarily involved in committing serious crimes including violent crime and selling drugs is called a ______________.
A)Hedonistic Gang
B)Instrumental Gang
C)c.Predatory Gang
D)Territorial Gang
E)Prison Gang
Q5) What is the difference between general intent and specific intent?
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Chapter 14: Special Populations
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Q1) __________ students were expelled during the 1997-1998 school year for bringing a firearm to school.
A)10,930
B)5,930
C)5,530
D)3,930
E)none of the above
Q2) What are the similarities between child prostitution and human trafficking?
Q3) Globally, approximately 60% of trafficking victims are female, and 25 % of those are trafficked for the commercial sex business.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In his book, The Prostitution of Women and Girls, R.Wolfgang Barri recounts the shameful history of child prostitution throughout history.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the characteristics of chronic juvenile offenders?
Q6) Describe the chiva epidemic in the United States.
Q7) Explain paraphilia and its consequences.
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Chapter 15: Future Directions in Juvenile Justice
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Q1) The Supreme Court decision in __________ afforded juveniles the basic due process rights adult offenders enjoy in the criminal system.
A)Kent v.United States
B)In re Gault
C)In re Winship
D)all of the above
E)none of the above
Q2) There are ________ drug courts in the operational and planning phases for juveniles in the United States.
A)15
B)150
C)1,500
D)15,000
E)150,000
Q3) What is the purpose of the Balanced and Restorative Justice Model (BARJ)?
Q4) Define the punitive model of juvenile justice.
Q5) Define Project CRAFT.
Q6) Name the three goals of the Balanced and Restorative Justice Model (BARJ).
Q7) Name the drawbacks of abolishing the juvenile justice system.
Q8) Name and describe the various programs aimed at preventing crime.
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