CCJS 450 Exam 1 (Chp 1-6) questions
with verified answers
Lemert (Labeling Theory) - correct answer ✔✔critical theory
primary vs secondary deviance
Super Predator - correct answer ✔✔A myth; fatherless, godless, jobless
Juvenile crime started declining in 1994
Most destructive myth about juvenile crime
Myths - correct answer ✔✔Juvenile court too lenient
Sanctions and treatment for juveniles were ineffective
Longer penalties would reduce juvenile crime
Reality of Myths - correct answer ✔✔Juvenile have lower re-arrest rates in juvy court vs adult
court
Treatment most effective on juveniles
Crime peaks at 16/17 declines at 20
Risks of increased offending behavior if confined young
"Miracle cures" - correct answer ✔✔Scared Straight
Boot camps
Placing youth in adult prisons (most destructive)
Juvenile delinquency - correct answer ✔✔violations of criminal law committed by minors
, socially constructed
Normative conception of delinquency - correct answer ✔✔a conception that assumes that
there is a general set of norms which we can agree
3 categories of norms - correct answer ✔✔folkways everyday norms
mores- moral norms
laws- strongest norms
social differentiation - correct answer ✔✔the difference or variation of people based on
selected social characteristics
Ascribed category - correct answer ✔✔cant change, like race and age
Achieved category - correct answer ✔✔Can change like social class
social inequality - correct answer ✔✔judgements of inequality
Intersectionality - correct answer ✔✔the interconnected nature of social categorizations such
as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating
overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
can occur on individual and institutional level
matrix of domination - correct answer ✔✔system of power that allows some to hold more
power based on social groups they identify with
Seven key areas of well being - correct answer ✔✔family and social environment
economic circumstances
with verified answers
Lemert (Labeling Theory) - correct answer ✔✔critical theory
primary vs secondary deviance
Super Predator - correct answer ✔✔A myth; fatherless, godless, jobless
Juvenile crime started declining in 1994
Most destructive myth about juvenile crime
Myths - correct answer ✔✔Juvenile court too lenient
Sanctions and treatment for juveniles were ineffective
Longer penalties would reduce juvenile crime
Reality of Myths - correct answer ✔✔Juvenile have lower re-arrest rates in juvy court vs adult
court
Treatment most effective on juveniles
Crime peaks at 16/17 declines at 20
Risks of increased offending behavior if confined young
"Miracle cures" - correct answer ✔✔Scared Straight
Boot camps
Placing youth in adult prisons (most destructive)
Juvenile delinquency - correct answer ✔✔violations of criminal law committed by minors
, socially constructed
Normative conception of delinquency - correct answer ✔✔a conception that assumes that
there is a general set of norms which we can agree
3 categories of norms - correct answer ✔✔folkways everyday norms
mores- moral norms
laws- strongest norms
social differentiation - correct answer ✔✔the difference or variation of people based on
selected social characteristics
Ascribed category - correct answer ✔✔cant change, like race and age
Achieved category - correct answer ✔✔Can change like social class
social inequality - correct answer ✔✔judgements of inequality
Intersectionality - correct answer ✔✔the interconnected nature of social categorizations such
as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating
overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
can occur on individual and institutional level
matrix of domination - correct answer ✔✔system of power that allows some to hold more
power based on social groups they identify with
Seven key areas of well being - correct answer ✔✔family and social environment
economic circumstances
