CRJS 370-Athabasca University Test Bank
Practice Questions with correct answers and
Rationale 2026
EXAM TERMS QUESTIONS VERIFIED AND GRADED A+ ANSWERS
1) Bifurcated ✓ divided into two branches; forked
2) Child Savers ✓ Nineteenth-century reformers who
developed programs for troubled
youth and influenced legislation
creating the juvenile justice system;
today some critics view them as
being more concerned with control
of the poor than with their welfare.
3) Crime Control Model of Criminal ✓ An orientation to criminal justice in
Justice which the protection of the
community and the apprehension of
offenders are paramount
,4) Cycle of Juvenile Justice ✓ refers to the tendency toward a
never-ending cycle of juvenile justice
reform common in western society
5) decontextualized ✓ not relying on the immediate
context, or setting, to convey content
6) Demographics ✓ the characteristics of a population
with respect to age, race, and
gender.
7) denied adulthood ✓ Refers to the notion that youth,
because of their legal dependency in
Western society, are prevented from
attaining the things that many adults
take for granted, such as the right to
make decisions about their own lives
and the right to express their views
8) Limited accountability justice ✓ Moral Panic
model
9) The reaction by a group of ✓ official crime
people based on exaggerated or
false perceptions about crime
and criminal behavior
10) offender and offence data based ✓ parens patriae
on information collected for
, administrative purposes by
justice agencies, such as the
police, courts, and correctional
institutions
11) power of the state to act on ✓ Penal Populism
behalf of the child and provide
care and protection equivalent to
that of a parent
12) Corrections policies that are ✓ politics of youth crime
formulated in pursuit of political
objectives, often in the absence
of an informed public or in spite
of public opinion
13) The mechanisms and methods ✓ Problematize
whereby youth activities are
socially constructed as criminal;
the meanings and imagery
attached to these definitions and
the types of responses they
generate
14) a process whereby something, ✓ reformatory
someone, or some group is
defined as a problem
Practice Questions with correct answers and
Rationale 2026
EXAM TERMS QUESTIONS VERIFIED AND GRADED A+ ANSWERS
1) Bifurcated ✓ divided into two branches; forked
2) Child Savers ✓ Nineteenth-century reformers who
developed programs for troubled
youth and influenced legislation
creating the juvenile justice system;
today some critics view them as
being more concerned with control
of the poor than with their welfare.
3) Crime Control Model of Criminal ✓ An orientation to criminal justice in
Justice which the protection of the
community and the apprehension of
offenders are paramount
,4) Cycle of Juvenile Justice ✓ refers to the tendency toward a
never-ending cycle of juvenile justice
reform common in western society
5) decontextualized ✓ not relying on the immediate
context, or setting, to convey content
6) Demographics ✓ the characteristics of a population
with respect to age, race, and
gender.
7) denied adulthood ✓ Refers to the notion that youth,
because of their legal dependency in
Western society, are prevented from
attaining the things that many adults
take for granted, such as the right to
make decisions about their own lives
and the right to express their views
8) Limited accountability justice ✓ Moral Panic
model
9) The reaction by a group of ✓ official crime
people based on exaggerated or
false perceptions about crime
and criminal behavior
10) offender and offence data based ✓ parens patriae
on information collected for
, administrative purposes by
justice agencies, such as the
police, courts, and correctional
institutions
11) power of the state to act on ✓ Penal Populism
behalf of the child and provide
care and protection equivalent to
that of a parent
12) Corrections policies that are ✓ politics of youth crime
formulated in pursuit of political
objectives, often in the absence
of an informed public or in spite
of public opinion
13) The mechanisms and methods ✓ Problematize
whereby youth activities are
socially constructed as criminal;
the meanings and imagery
attached to these definitions and
the types of responses they
generate
14) a process whereby something, ✓ reformatory
someone, or some group is
defined as a problem
