Psychology and the Legal System Exam Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores the intersection between psychology and the legal system, examining how psychological principles, theories, and research inform legal processes and practices. Key topics include the reliability of eyewitness testimony, the psychology of jury decision-making, competency evaluations, criminal profiling, and the assessment of victims and offenders. Students will also analyze the impact of psychological factors on legal outcomes, ethical considerations in forensic settings, and the role of expert testimony in court proceedings. Through case studies and current research, the course provides an in-depth understanding of how psychological science is applied to real-world legal issues.
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Juvenile Delinquency Theory Practice and Law 11th Edition by Larry J. Siegel
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Chapter 1: Childhood Delinquency
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Q1) Youths involved in multiple serious criminal acts, referred to as _____________________, are now recognized as serious social problems.
Answer: Chronic delinquent offenders
Q2) ______________________________ is the federal agency created to identify the needs of youths and fund policy initiative in the juvenile system.
Answer: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Q3) Under the 1646 Massachusetts Stubborn Child Law a child could be
A)Put to death
B)Required to enter the military
C)Required to enter the priesthood
D)Placed with another family
Answer: A
Q4) Family structure and the role of children began to change after the
A)Civil War
B)Enlightenment
C)Middle Ages
D)First World War
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: The Nature and Extent of Delinquency
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Q1) The "missing cases" phenomenon is not a major concern with self-report studies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) To conduct _____ research, researchers manipulate or intervene in the lives of their subjects to see the outcome or the effect of the intervention.
A)Experimental
B)Single-subject
C)Ethnographic
D)Meta-analysis
Answer: A
Q3) Native American adolescents have the highest rate for _______ victimization.
Answer: Sexual assault
Q4) Some experts tie increases in the violent delinquency rate between 1980 and 1990 to the _____.
Answer: Crack epidemic
Q5) The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is being developed y the _____.
Answer: FBI
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Chapter 3: Individual Views of Delinquency
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Q1) According to ______________, male aggression may be more a matter of genetic transfer than socialization or cultural patterns.
Answer: Individual-level theorists
Q2) A crime control policy that depends on the fear of criminal penalties by punishing an Individual so that others do not commit crime is called ____________.
A)Incapacitation
B)Retribution
C)General deterrence
D)Special deterrence
Answer: C
Q3) According to Scott Jacques, _________ is defined as non-violent revenge gained through resource confiscation without interaction between the retaliator and wrongdoer during the transfer.
A)Violent confiscation
B)Fraudulent retaliation
C)Stealth retailiation
D)Pure fight
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Structure, Process, Culture, and Delinquency
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Q1) _____ theories view delinquency as the result of a person's interaction with critical Elements of socialization.
A)Social process
B)Deterrence
C)Social Structure
D)Evolutionary
Q2) According to social disorganization theory, delinquency rates are highest in the _____.
A)Suburbs
B)Transitional neighborhoods
C)Italian sections of the city
D)Downtown area
Q3) ______may actually occur as a response to escalating deviance rates; neighbors may band together to fight a common problem.
Q4) The theory of the culture of poverty is the view that lower-class people form a separate culture with their own values and norms, which are sometimes in conflict with conventional society.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Social Reason, Conflict, and Delinquency
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Q1) According to _____, moral entrepreneurs are people who construct rules.
A)Frank Tannenbaum
B)Marvin Krohn
C)Howard Becker
D)Edwin Lemert
Q2) Social reaction theory is also commonly called critical theory.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Using humanistic, nonpunitive strategies to right wrongs and restore social harmony is referred to as ________________.
A)Labeling
B)Restorative justice
C)Balanced justice
D)Deinstitutionalization
Q4) The concept of restorative justice has its roots in symbolic interaction theory.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the four quadrants of Howard Becker's table of deviance and reaction.Do you agree or disagree with Becker's theory, why or why not?
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Chapter 6: Developmental Theories of Delinquency
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Q1) Explain why the work of Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck had such a great influence on developmental theory
Q2) Disruptions in life's _____ can be destructive and can ultimately promote delinquency.
Q3) _____ is a drug prevention program, the goal of which is to strengthen the bonds between adults and children to provide opportunities for positive community involvement.
A)SMART
B)Across Ages
C)Positive Action
D)Fast Track
Q4) Gottfredson and Hirschi attribute the tendency to commit delinquent acts to a person's
A)Level of self-control
B)Educational level
C)Social-emotional development
D)Full scale IQ
Q5) Explain the concept of problem behavior syndrome.What is your view of this concept? Explain.
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Chapter 7: Gender and Delinquency
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Q1) In regard to gender differences, Eleanor Maccoby argues that differences are
A)Based on biology
B)Based on the way kids are socialized
C)Based on individual personality
D)Based upon birth order
Q2) According to ____ feminists, females are less delinquent than males because their social roles provide fewer opportunities to commit crime.
A)Critical
B)Liberal
C)Biosocial
D)Power-control
Q3) Investigators continue to support the view that female delinquents have more _____ home lives than male offenders.
A)Dysfunctional
B)Structured
C)Authoritarian
D)Paternalistic
Q4) Discuss the possible relationship between early puberty and victimization.
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Chapter 8: The Family and Delinquency
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Q1) A significant number of delinquent youths have _____ fathers.
Q2) Deviance is _____, and the traits that cause one sibling to engage in delinquency are shared by his or her brother or sister.
Q3) School is the primary unit in which children learn the values and attitudes that guide their behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain sibling influences on delinquency.What is your opinion on this concept? Explain.
Q5) A lawyer 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 ______.
A)Child watcher
B)Child saver
C)Guardian ad litem
D)Guardian angel
Q6) The non-accidental physical injury of children by their parents or guardians is called
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Chapter 9: Peers and Delinquency
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Q1) When the peer group provides the social and emotional basis for antisocial activity, a clique is transformed into a gang.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the _____ view, youths are encouraged to join gangs during period of social, economic, and cultural turmoil.
A)Socialization
B)Rational choice
C)Anomie / Alienation
D)Psychological
Q3) The three largest African-American gangs are _____, _____, and _____.
Q4) Tossing or flashing gang signs in the presence of rivals, often escalating into a verbal or Physical confrontation is called ____.
A)Posting
B)Representing
C)Signifying
D)Identifying
Q5) Explain the elements of Spergel's Community Gang Control Program.
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Chapter 10: Schools and Delinquency
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Q1) According to the text, it is now estimated that one out of _____ children are unprepared when they enter kindergarten.
A)4
B)5
C)8
D)10
Q2) Under the concept of _____, discipline is one of the assumed parental duties given to the school system.
Q3) In _____ the courts held that schools were allowed to administer drug testing programs to student athletes.
A)New Jersey v.T.L.O
B)Tinker v.Des Moines Independent Community School District
C)Vernonia School District 47J v.Acton
D)Wisconsin v.Yoder
Q4) Discuss 4 of the 14 factors linked to children who engage in serious school violence.Why did you choose these factors? Explain.
Q5) New Jersey v.T.L.O.was concerned with issues surrounding the _____ Amendment.
Q6) _____ may be the function of students' inability to see the relevance of what they are taught.
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Chapter 11: Drug Use and Delinquency
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Q1) _____ is defined as having five or more alcoholic drinks on the same occasion on at least five different days in the past 30 days.
A)Heavy drinking
B)Alcoholism
C)Binge drinking
D)Drastic drinking
Q2) _____ therapy addresses a variety of family, peer, and psychological problems by focusing on problem solving and communication skills training.
A)Multisystemic
B)Behavioral
C)Socialization
D)Substance abuse
Q3) _____ are lab-created synthetics that are designed to get around existing drug laws.
Q4) What is harm reduction? Explain this approach.What is your view of harm reduction?
Q5) _____ are insulated from the justice system because their activities rarely result in apprehension.
Q6) Explain the concept of persistent offenders.
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Chapter 12: Delinquency Prevention
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Q1) Delinquency prevention programs are designed with the intention of excluding juvenile justice personnel.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In 1996, the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) at the University of
Colorado at Boulder launched _____.
A)Communities That Care (CTC)
B)Children At Risk program (CAR)
C)SafeFutures Initiative
D)Blueprints for Violence Prevention initiative
Q3) ______ dispatched trained social workers to seek out and meet with youth gangs three to four times a week on the gang's own turf.
A)Mobilization for Youth (MOBY)
B)Chicago Area Project
C)Boston's Mid-City Project
D)Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study
Q4) In 1996 the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado at Boulder launched the _____ initiative.
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Chapter 13: Juvenile Justice
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Q1) According to the text, teen courts may also encourage communities to take a more active role in responding to juvenile justice.Discuss the four potential benefits offered by the authors in regard to teen court.Would you agree or disagree with these benefits? Explain.
Q2) A typical resident of the House of Refuge devotee most of his/her time to _____.
A)Education
B)Religious instruction
C)Supervised labor
D)Vocational training
Q3) Compare and contrast the similarities between the juvenile and adult systems.
Q4) Discuss the conflicting values in juvenile justice.In considering the conflict, which view most aligns with your views? Explain.
Q5) Trains in which urban youths were sent West for adoption with local farm couples were called ______.
A)Freedom trains
B)Orphan trains
C)Children's trains
D)Refuge trains
Q6) Discuss the Illinois Juvenile Court Act; include the key provision of the act.
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Chapter 14: Police Work With Juveniles
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Q1) The term in loco parentis is Latin for _______.
A)With the permission of a family member
B)The crime occurred in a certain location
C)In place of the parent
D)With the permission of the parent
Q2) The premise of the community policing model of crime prevention is that the police can carry out their duties more effectively by ______.
A)Gaining the trust and assistance of concerned citizens
B)Making more arrests
C)Using more undercover sting operations for drugs
D)Getting tough on crime
Q3) Modeled after DARE, ______ was developed to help reduce adolescent involvement in crime.
A)GARE
B)GREAT
C)SROA
D)GERT
Q4) Problem-oriented policing is also referred to as problem-solving policing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Juvenile Court Process
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Q1) Youths who are diagnosed with a psychological disorder may be required to undergo therapy at a local mental health clinic; this disposition is considered to be a commitment to a residential community program.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Some states allow a juvenile adjudication for a criminal act to be used as evidence in an adult criminal proceeding for the same act to show _____.
Q3) In _____, the U.S.Supreme Court held that the death penalty for juveniles was unconstitutional.
A)Graham v.Florida
B)In re Gault
C)Atkins v.Virginia
D)Roper v.Simmons
Q4) Discuss the decision to detain.Explain your views on detention.
Q5) Juveniles do not have a constitutional right to counsel.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Discuss bail for youth.Do you agree or disagree with bail for juveniles, why or why not?
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Chapter 16: Juvenile Corrections: Probation
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Q1) The process and experience of the transition of juveniles from juvenile and adult correctional settings back into schools, families, communities, and society at large is referred to as _____.
A)Parole
B)Integration
C)Probation
D)Reentry
Q2) _____ established minimum standards for all juveniles confined in training schools.
A)Nelson v.Heyne
B)Inmates of the Boys' Training School v.Affleck
C)Ralston v.Robinson
D)Pena v.New York State Division for Youth
Q3) The _____ prepares the predisposition report for the court.
A)Judge
B)Juvenile probation officer
C)Prosecutor
D)Juvenile's parents/guardians
Q4) Describe behavior modification.Explain your view on this theory.
Q5) Most juvenile institutions maintain _____ featuring individual or group therapy.
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Chapter 17: Delinquency and Juvenile Justice Abroad
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Q1) One study found that more than _____ street gangs can be found in Mexico City.
Q2) Gang violence is prevalent in the Americas and is a growing concern in parts of _____.
Q3) For juvenile offenders in the Netherlands, a life sentence may mean serving as much as _____ years.
A)20
B)30
C)50
D)70
Q4) Explain Maisons de justice.Explain your view of this system.
Q5) Organized government or criminal groups in South America that selectively kill members of opposing groups and incite fear in those groups and among their supporters are known as _____.
A)Drug lords
B)Freedom fighters
C)Death squads
D)Skinheads
Q6) In lieu of a formal caution, the police in England may issue a _____ to a suspected juvenile delinquent.
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