Social Work with Youth Exam Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores the principles and practices of social work as they relate to adolescents and young adults. Students will examine the unique developmental, social, and emotional challenges faced by youth, including issues such as identity formation, family dynamics, education, mental health, substance abuse, and involvement with the juvenile justice system. Emphasis is placed on culturally responsive interventions, advocacy, policy analysis, and engaging youth in both individual and group settings. Through case studies, role-playing, and collaborative projects, students develop assessment and intervention skills tailored to empowering youth and promoting positive outcomes in diverse communities.
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Juvenile Delinquency The Core 4th Edition by Larry J. Siegel
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Chapter 1: Childhood and Delinquency
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Q1) "__________________" minors is the original early designation of youths who violate the law because of their minority status.
A)Reckless
B)Offending
C)Deviant
D)Wayward
Answer: D
Q2) While adults are tried in court, children are ________________.
Answer: adjudicated
Q3) The criteria on which juvenile sentencing is based is "____________________." Answer: need for treatment
Q4) The philosophical viewpoint that encourages the state to take control of wayward children and provide care, custody, and treatment to remedy delinquent behavior is:
A)"parental inefficacy"
B)"best interest of the child"
C)"in loco parentis"
D)none of the above
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Nature and Extent of Delinquency
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Q1) In Wolfgang's Delinquency in a Birth Cohort, six percent of the total sample was responsible for fifty-two percent of all offenses.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Because the UCR arrest statistics are _______________ by suspect's age, they can be used to estimate adolescent delinquency.
Answer: disaggregated
Q3) Which of the following is a Part I offense?
A)arson
B)weapons possession
C)possession of cocaine
D)gang membership
Answer: A
Q4) Self-report studies are a valuable source of information on the activities of youths who have had contact with the juvenile justice system as well as on the __________________ of crime - that is, those who have escaped official notice.
Answer: dark figures
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Chapter 3: Individual Views of Delinquency: Choice and Trait
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Q1) The techniques of situational crime prevention include hardening targets, using surveillance, and more effective street lighting.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) __________________ theory is the branch of psychology that studies the perception of reality and the mental processes required to understand the world we live in.
Answer: Cognitive
Q3) Research shows that children with conduct disorder are frequently involved in bullying, fighting, committing sexual assaults, and behaving cruelly toward animals.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Children with ADHD are more likely to use illicit drugs, alcohol, cigarettes in adolescence.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Sociological Views of Delinquency
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Q1) Residents of cohesive communities develop a sense of __________________; people know one another, develop interpersonal ties, mutual trust and a willingness to intervene in the supervision of children and help maintain public order.
Q2) Labeling theory is primarily concerned with identifying the way society reacts to individuals and the way individuals react to society to shape or influence behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q3) William Julius Wilson described the members of the urban underclass as the:
A)enabled poor
B)truly disadvantaged
C)transitional poor
D)relative poverty stricken
Q4) This source of strain outlined by Robert Agnew can be caused by the loss of girlfriend, moving to a new neighborhood, or the divorce of parents.
A)disjunction of expectations and achievements
B)removal of positively valued stimuli
C)presentation of negative stimulus
D)failure to achieve goals
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Chapter 5: Developmental Views of Delinquency: Life
Course and Latent Trait
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Q1) ______________________ refers to the view that kids who begin engaging in antisocial behaviors at a very early age are the ones most at risk for a delinquency career.
Q2) The covert pathway describes a situation where a delinquent career begins with minor, underhanded behavior and eventually escalates into more serious criminality.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In Laub and Sampson's follow up of the Glueck study, when participants in their 60s and 70s were asked what the most important element for going straight was, they replied:
A)it was pretty hard getting up in the morning after having a few cold ones
B)the "knifing off" of individuals from their immediate environment
C)landing a big job with a defense contractor
D)I just can't sneak into the second floor windows like I used to
Q4) Being _________________ is not a sign that a person has low self-control.
A)insensitive
B)shortsighted
C)nonverbal
D)diligent
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Chapter 6: Gender and Delinquency
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Q1) Girls associated with primarily male gangs exhibit less violence than those in all female gangs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss the gender differences in the juvenile justice system presented in the text.
Q3) Girls are often stereotyped as talkative, and research supports that hypothesis.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Identify and discuss the masculinity hypothesis.
Q5) Which of the following statements is false concerning gender differences in cognition?
A)Males acquire language faster.
B)Females are superior in verbal ability.
C)Males test higher in visual spatial performance.
D)Females are less likely to have reading problems.
Q6) Compare and contrast early biological and early psychological explanations of female delinquency.
Q7) The _________________ brain is believed to control spatial relations.
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Q8) In 1925, Cyril Burt linked female delinquency to _____________________.
Chapter 7: The Family and Delinquency
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Q1) ________________________ is manifested by constant criticism and rejection of the child by the parents.
Q2) The ________________________ refers to non-accidental physical injury of children by their parents or guardians.
Q3) According to the text, 75 percent of African American children will experience parental separation or divorce before they reach age sixteen.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In ________________________, the Supreme Court ruled that the due process clause of the Constitution protects against government interference with certain fundamental rights and liberty interests, including parents' fundamental right to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of their children.
A)Jones v. Kentucky
B)White v. Illinois
C)Troxel v. Granville
D)Kramer v. Kramer
Q5) Compare and contrast advisement, disposition, and review hearings. Provide examples.
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Chapter 8: Peers and Delinquency: Juvenile Gangs and Groups
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Q1) Control theorists contend that delinquents are alienated from conventional society, but maintain strong positive bonds to delinquent friends.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A major source of communication by gangs is a type of wall writing called
Q3) According to the text, graffiti that has been crossed-out is an indication that a territory is contested by a rival gang.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to the anthropological view, kids with personality problems form gangs and become leaders.
A)True
B)False
Q5) National data indicate that about _______ percent of gang members are female.
A)20
B)15
C)10
D)30
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Chapter 9: Schools and Delinquency
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Q1) African American youth educated in states where a higher proportion of their classmates are European American experience significantly higher incarcerations rates as adults.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In a 1988 case, Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, the Court extended the right of school officials to censor ____________________ when it ruled that the principal could censor articles in a student publication.
Q3) An important U.S. Supreme Court decision concerning a student's right to passive speech was in 1969 in the case of _______________ v. Des Moines Independent Community School District; this case involved the right to wear black armbands to protest the war in Vietnam.
Q4) In Goss v. Lopez, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:
A)school systems have a right to drug test all athletes
B)any time a student is to be suspended for up to ten days he or she is entitled to a hearing
C)high school students have a constitutional right to use active speech
D)teachers have the right to use corporal punishment to discipline their students
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Chapter 10: Drug Use and Delinquency
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Q1) An evaluation of the _________________________________, which features ads showing the dangers of marijuana use, reported that 41 percent of students in grades seven to twelve "agree a lot" that the ads made them less likely to try or use drugs.
Q2) The _______________________ technique developed by Scott Henggeler directs attention to family, peer, and psychological problems by focusing on problem solving and communication skills.
A)multisystemic treatment
B)electric shock
C)milieu therapy
D)behavior modification
Q3) Amyl nitrite is a commonly used volatile liquid packaged in capsule form, and it is a type of ____________________.
Q4) _____________________ is defined as having five or more alcoholic beverages on the same occasion at least one in the past thirty days.
Q5) ___________________ is a concentrated form of cannabis made from unadulterated resin from the female plant.
Q6) The ______________________________ treatment technique developed by Henggeler, addresses a variety of family, peer, and psychological problems.
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Chapter 11: The History and Development of Juvenile Justice
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Q1) Like adults, juveniles are protect against reasonable search and seizure under the ________________ and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution.
A)Fifth
B)Eight
C)Fourth
D)Seventh
Q2) A(n) __________________ for a juvenile is similar to a criminal trial for an adult.
A)bifurcated process
B)adjudicatory hearing
C)disposition hearing
D)sentencing hearing
Q3) According to the text, which of the following statements best describes what children's legal rights were like during the period of the Child Savers?
A)child rights were strictly enforced
B)children enjoyed greater protections of their legal rights than adults
C)there were many court cases which clarified and expanded juvenile legal rights
D)none of the above are true
Q4) ____________________ is the trial stage of the juvenile court process.
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Chapter 12: Police Work With Juveniles
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Q1) The ________________________ holds that police are likely to act paternally toward young girls and not arrest them.
Q2) A police ________________ is a person who has access to criminal networks and shares information with authorities in exchange for money or special treatment under conditions of anonymity.
Q3) A felony is a serious offense; a misdemeanor is a minor or petty crime; crimes such as murder, rape, and robbery are ___________________.
Q4) Juveniles typically account for about forty percent of all violent crime arrests.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In the case People v. Lara, the court ruled that a juvenile may waive their Miranda rights, but the test of the validity of the waiver is the totality of the circumstances.
A)True
B)False
Q6) In __________________ cases, the police officer must personally observe the crime to place a suspect in custody or have probable cause to believe that the juvenile committed the offense.
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Chapter 13: Juvenile Court Process: Pretrial, Trial, and Sentencing
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Q1) According to the text, more than 90 percent of all adult defendants plead: A)innocent
B)no contest
C)guilty
D)none of the above
Q2) Which of the following is a problem in public defender services for indigent juveniles in Pennsylvania?
A)In some counties, up to 30 percent of children appear without counsel
B)In one jurisdiction, public defenders handle about 360 cases per year
C)Some 44 percent of defense attorneys said they had no or inadequate access to investigators
D)About 94 percent of defense attorneys do not have access to independent investigators or social workers
Q3) __________________ is addressed in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
A)Bail
B)Due process
C)Detention
D)Parole
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Q4) Compare and contrast indeterminate, determinate, and mandatory sentences.
Chapter 14: Juvenile Corrections: Probation, Community
Treatment, and Institutionalization
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Q1) Murray and Cox report there is a ___________________, a reduction in the number of arrests per year, following release from a secure treatment facility.
A)sensitizing effect
B)suppression effect
C)brutalization effect
D)resiliency effect
Q2) ________________ refers to the process and experience of returning to society upon release from a custody facility post-adjudication.
Q3) Community treatment is based on the idea that the juvenile offender is a danger to the community and has to be supervised.
A)True
B)False
Q4) _____________________ type of counseling requires an extensive analysis of the individual's childhood experiences.
A)Reality therapy
B)Psychotherapy
C)Electric shock therapy
D)Behavior modification
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