Social Work with Adolescents
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Course Introduction
This course explores the principles, practices, and challenges of social work with adolescents, focusing on the unique developmental, social, and emotional needs of youth during this critical life stage. Students will examine the impact of family, school, community, and policy environments on adolescent well-being, addressing topics such as identity formation, mental health, substance use, risk and resilience, and cultural diversity. Through case studies, evidence-based interventions, and engagement with ethical considerations, the course prepares future social workers to advocate for and support adolescents in a variety of settings, promoting positive outcomes and healthy development.
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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) Probation is a disposition imposed by the court allowing the adjudicated offender to remain in the community as long as the offender abides by certain conditions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The process through which a juvenile court relinquishes jurisdiction over the juvenile offender and the case is processed in adult court is called adult processing.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The authority granted by law to hear a case is called __________.
A)jurisdiction
B)actus reus
C)states rights
D)venue
E)parens patriae
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: History of the Juvenile Justice System
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Q1) A law passed by Congress in 1996 that embraces the punitive and accountability assumptions advocated in the late 1970s and 1980s was called _____________.
A)The Balanced Juvenile Justice and Crime Prevention Act
B)The Reformatory Act
C)The Juvenile Justice Act of 1901
D)The Illinois Juvenile Court Act of 1899
E)The Juvenile Delinquency Act of 1891
Answer: A
Q2) During the colonial era in the United States, parents were free to sell their children into slavery.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The first documented case where the concept of parens patriae was questioned in a legal setting in the United States was the case of Ex Parte Crouse.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Juvenile Crime, Criminals, and Victims
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Q1) Juvenile arrest rates for property crimes rose substantially from 2000 to 2006
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which of the following is the least likely to be delinquent?
A)first born children
B)second born children
C)third born children
D)there is no relationship between birth order and delinquency
Answer: A
Q3) The "dark figure of crime" refers to the national drug problem.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Juveniles are responsible for most violent crimes in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q5) 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 part of one's personality that represents the identity of the individual and actual behavior is called the ego.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The attempt to maximize pleasure and minimize pain is called
A)selfish
B)rationalism
C)deterrence
D)hedonistic calculus
Q3) According to the text, the influence of the positive school of thought increased for two reasons.Explain each of those reasons.
Q4) How do Lawrence Cohen and Marcus Felson explain the changes in crime rates?
Q5) Which of the following is not part of the classical school of criminology?
A)free will
B)hedonistic calculus
C)determinism
D)emphasis of offense
E)punishment
Q6) Describe in detail the Classical School of Criminology. Page 6
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Chapter 5: Social Structure, Social Process, and Social
Reaction Theories
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Q1) Explain the theory of differential association.
Q2) Explain how life course theories are different from social learning and social control theories.
Q3) How are Sutherland's differential association theory and Akers's differential reinforcement theory different? How are they similar?
Q4) Explain social structure theories and name the three major social structure theories.
Q5) _______________ devised theories that are examples of social reaction theories.
A)Reckless, Hirschi, and Gottfredson
B)Thornberry, Sampson and Laub
C)Lemert, Hagan, and Colvin and Pauly
D)All of the above
E)None of the above
Q6) If lower-class students fail at school, they will not be able to attain their goal of middle-class status.This is known as status frustration.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Explain the works of Robert Merton.
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Q8) What are the four elements of the social bond?
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Chapter 6: Delinquency Prevention and Intervention
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Q1) When first time offenders are diverted away from formal processing and into a number of service programs it is called ____________.
A)diversion
B)classification
C)deinstitutionalization
D)early pre-delinquent intervention and prevention
Q2) The government agency responsible for coordination and researching delinquency prevention programs is the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is the Abolish Chronic Truancy (ACT) program?
Q4) Explain the failure of the Scared Straight program.
Q5) Research has shown that immediately after school is a prime time for delinquents to commit crime.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are the three philosophies behind delinquency prevention programs listed in Chapter Six?
Q7) Explain the Communities That Care (CTC) program.
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Chapter 7: Police and Juveniles
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Q1) The police are required to make an arrest when a juvenile commits a crime or other delinquent act.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the responsibility of the intake officer and how much power do they have?
Q3) Juveniles who live in urban areas tend to have a more positive view of the police than those in suburban or rural areas.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Each year over 5,000 juveniles are arrested for murder.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The number of juveniles arrested for murder in 2007 was _____________.
A)563
B)857
C)1,350
D)4,879
E)7,889
Q6) Explain the concept of problem-oriented policing and the SARA model.
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Chapter 8: Juvenile Law and Procedure
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Q1) Currently, at least 45 states require or permit the court to open juvenile proceedings if the case involves a serious offense or if the youth is a habitual offender.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Compare and contrast the New Jersey Juvenile Justice code with the Texas Juvenile Justice code.
Q3) 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
Q4) Which of the following rights was not granted to juveniles in the In re Gault decision?
A)right to reasonable notice of the charges
B)right to counsel
C)right to confront and cross examine witnesses
D)right against self-incrimination, including the right to remain silent
E)the right to a jury trial
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Chapter 9: The Juvenile Court
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Q1) 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
Q2) A procedure by which the juvenile is removed from the juvenile justice process and provided with treatment services is called diversion.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The process by which a juvenile pleads guilty in exchange for concessions made by the prosecutor is called ______________.
A)a negotiated sentence
B)a plea bargain
C)a presentence disposition
D)an agreement
Q4) What occurs at a detention hearing?
Q5) Under Common Law, a juvenile age 6 or older could receive the same sentence as an adult.
A)True
B)False
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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) 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
Q3) What is the effect of "once an adult, always an adult" laws on juvenile prosecutions?
Q4) Between 2001 and 2005, the number of judicially waived delinquency cases increased 79%.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the five types of blended sentences?
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Chapter 11: Community-Based Corrections for Juveniles
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Q1) 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
Q2) A type of community correctional facility where juvenile offenders report during the day for school, vocational, and other treatment programs is called
A)day treatment programs
B)house arrest
C)shock probation
D)community service
E)relaxed probation
Q3) The juvenile correctional system in the United States grew in a bifurcated or two-pronged manner.Explain each of those prongs.
Q4) What are the different correctional alternatives available in the juvenile justice system?
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Chapter 12: Institutional Corrections for Juveniles
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Q1) The first goal of the Southern Oaks Girls School is to _________________.
A)prevent teenage pregnancy
B)protect society from girl violence
C)help each girl achieve an academic level appropriate for her age
D)help each girl achieve skills in a discipline such as computer programming or nursing
Q2) How many deaths were attributed to suicide committed within juvenile detention facilities from 2003 to 2006?
A)zero
B)16
C)103
D)2,000
Q3) How does the release of a juvenile from institutional life open up new problems and issues for the juvenile?
Q4) What two classifications of juveniles are in institutional facilities for juveniles?
Q5) What has research found regarding the rate of recidivism in juvenile boot camps?
Q6) How are juvenile correctional facility directors and adult prison wardens different from each other?
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Chapter 13: Gangs and Delinquency
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Q1) What are the five types of gangs as characterized by Cheryl Maxson and Malcolm Klein?
Q2) Public markings used by gang members to identify their existence and territory are called graffiti.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss the three prominent reasons of why youths join gangs.
Q4) Describe the most recent patterns of gang cycles as reported by the 2007 National Youth Gang Survey.Do you believe that the gang problem will increase or decrease in the future? Why?
Q5) According to Cheryl Maxson and Malcolm Klein, a type of gang that has a well-defined territory, narrow age range of members, and is small in size, is called a
A)traditional gang
B)neotraditional gang
C)compress gang
D)collective gang
E)specialty gang
Q6) Explain how age affects gang membership.
Q7) Explain the various ways that gang migration might occur.
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Chapter 14: Special Populations
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Q1) Globally, there are 2 million children under the age of 18 engaged in prostitution.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
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) What are the options available to mentally ill juvenile offenders?
Q5) Explain the concept of neglect and compare and contrast with the concept of child abuse.
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Chapter 15: Future Directions in Juvenile Justice
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Q1) Three social structure theories support the argument that socioeconomic conditions and cultural values in the lower class lead to delinquency.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Define the punitive model of juvenile justice.
Q3) Define Project CRAFT.
Q4) Project CRAFT began in 1994 and has been adopted in ____________.
A)North Dakota
B)Tennessee
C)Maryland
D)Florida
E)all of the above
Q5) Name the three goals of the Balanced and Restorative Justice Model (BARJ).
Q6) _______________ created an innovative program designed to deal with curfew violators.
A)Silverton, Oregon
B)Arlington Heights, Illinois
C)Roanoke, Virginia
D)St.Clares Shores, Michigan
E)Phoenix, Arizona
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