TEST BANK
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND LAW
14TH EDITION
CHAPTER 1. CHILDHOOD AND DELINQUENCY
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. What process transfers legal jurisdiction of the most serious and experienced juvenile offenders to the adult court
for criminal prosecution?
a. Waiver
b. Chancery court
c. Adult court
d. Juvenile transfer
ANSWER: a
2. Which of these has increased since the 1990s?
a. Teen pregnancy
b. Abortion
c. Childhood immunizations
d. Smoking
ANSWER: c
3. Johns Hopkins University found that the homicide rate for young people was higher than the national average.
How much higher did they find it to be?
a. Twice the national average
b. Three times the national average
c. Four times the national average
d. Five times the national average
ANSWER: a
4. Research shows that kids who engage in what type of behavior are much more likely to engage in precocious
sex?
a. Listen to music with sexual content
b. Play violent video games
c. Watch violent movies
d. Watch movies with sexual content
ANSWER: a
5. Why is delinquent behavior sanctioned less heavily than criminality?
a. Juvenile ego development is not complete.
b. The law considers juveniles as being less responsible for their behavior than adults.
c. The law holds that parents must pay for the behaviors of their children.
d. Role diffusion is a common cause of delinquency.
ANSWER: b
, 6. Today, the legal status of “juvenile delinquent” refers to a minor child who has been found to have violated what?
a. Penal code
b. Juvenile code
c. Civil code
d. Status code
ANSWER: a
7. What is the single most effective preventive strategy against adult poverty?
a. Avoid gangs
b. Earn a college degree
c. Avoid substance abuse
d. Graduate from high school
ANSWER: d
8. What present-day term refers to young people who are extremely vulnerable to the negative consequences of
school failure, substance abuse, and early sexuality?
a. At-risk youth
b. Juvenile delinquent
c. Wayward minors
d. Role diffused youth
ANSWER: a
9. What philosophical viewpoint encourages the state to take control of wayward children and provide care,
custody, and treatment to remedy delinquent behavior?
a. Best interests of the child
b. Paternalism
c. Primogeniture
d. Waiver
ANSWER: a
10. Which philosophy stressed a humanistic view of life, freedom, family, reason, and law?
a. Renaissance
b. Middle Ages
c. Enlightenment
d. Parens patriae
ANSWER: c
,11. The process by which juvenile offenders continue with their delinquent careers rather than aging out of crime is
referred to as:
a. Delinquency
b. Persistence
c. Rebellion
d. Primogeniture
ANSWER: b
12. According to Erik Erikson, what is formed when a person develops a full sense of self?
a. Personality
b. Id
c. Ego identity
d. Role diffusion
ANSWER: c
13. Although all young people face stress in the education system, the risks are greatest for what group?
a. Males
b. Females
c. Middle class
d. Children of color
ANSWER: d
14. Juveniles who were once referred to as wayward children are now called what?
a. Criminals
b. Juvenile delinquents
c. Delinquents
d. Status offenders
ANSWER: d
15. How was the rule of parens patriae first used by English kings?
a. To intervene in the lives of children whose parents were peasants and unable to care for them
b. To intervene in the lives of children who engaged in criminal acts
c. To intervene in the lives of children whose position and property were of direct concern to the monarch
d. To intervene in the lives of children who were intellectually challenged and could not care for themselves
ANSWER: c
, 16. Which of the following terms refers to the practice of setting up a fictitious online profile, most often for the
purpose of luring another into a fraudulent romantic relationship?
a. Phishing
b. Cyberbullying
c. Cyberstalking
d. Catfishing
ANSWER: d
17. A recent analysis by Johns Hopkins University found what to be the leading cause of death for children and teens
ages 1–19?
a. Knives
b. Suicide
c. Stalking
d. Guns
ANSWER: d
18. What term is defined as the oldest age at which a juvenile court has original jurisdiction over an individual for
law-violating behavior?
a. Adult waiver
b. Aging out
c. Upper age of jurisdiction
d. Primogeniture
ANSWER: b
19. What term refers to youths who have been arrested four or more times during their minority and perpetuate a
striking majority of serious criminal acts?
a. Status offender
b. Wayward child
c. Chronic delinquent
d. At-risk child
ANSWER: c
20. Early English jurisprudence held that children under what age were legally incapable of committing crimes?
a. 7
b. 8
c. 9
d. 10
ANSWER: a
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND LAW
14TH EDITION
CHAPTER 1. CHILDHOOD AND DELINQUENCY
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. What process transfers legal jurisdiction of the most serious and experienced juvenile offenders to the adult court
for criminal prosecution?
a. Waiver
b. Chancery court
c. Adult court
d. Juvenile transfer
ANSWER: a
2. Which of these has increased since the 1990s?
a. Teen pregnancy
b. Abortion
c. Childhood immunizations
d. Smoking
ANSWER: c
3. Johns Hopkins University found that the homicide rate for young people was higher than the national average.
How much higher did they find it to be?
a. Twice the national average
b. Three times the national average
c. Four times the national average
d. Five times the national average
ANSWER: a
4. Research shows that kids who engage in what type of behavior are much more likely to engage in precocious
sex?
a. Listen to music with sexual content
b. Play violent video games
c. Watch violent movies
d. Watch movies with sexual content
ANSWER: a
5. Why is delinquent behavior sanctioned less heavily than criminality?
a. Juvenile ego development is not complete.
b. The law considers juveniles as being less responsible for their behavior than adults.
c. The law holds that parents must pay for the behaviors of their children.
d. Role diffusion is a common cause of delinquency.
ANSWER: b
, 6. Today, the legal status of “juvenile delinquent” refers to a minor child who has been found to have violated what?
a. Penal code
b. Juvenile code
c. Civil code
d. Status code
ANSWER: a
7. What is the single most effective preventive strategy against adult poverty?
a. Avoid gangs
b. Earn a college degree
c. Avoid substance abuse
d. Graduate from high school
ANSWER: d
8. What present-day term refers to young people who are extremely vulnerable to the negative consequences of
school failure, substance abuse, and early sexuality?
a. At-risk youth
b. Juvenile delinquent
c. Wayward minors
d. Role diffused youth
ANSWER: a
9. What philosophical viewpoint encourages the state to take control of wayward children and provide care,
custody, and treatment to remedy delinquent behavior?
a. Best interests of the child
b. Paternalism
c. Primogeniture
d. Waiver
ANSWER: a
10. Which philosophy stressed a humanistic view of life, freedom, family, reason, and law?
a. Renaissance
b. Middle Ages
c. Enlightenment
d. Parens patriae
ANSWER: c
,11. The process by which juvenile offenders continue with their delinquent careers rather than aging out of crime is
referred to as:
a. Delinquency
b. Persistence
c. Rebellion
d. Primogeniture
ANSWER: b
12. According to Erik Erikson, what is formed when a person develops a full sense of self?
a. Personality
b. Id
c. Ego identity
d. Role diffusion
ANSWER: c
13. Although all young people face stress in the education system, the risks are greatest for what group?
a. Males
b. Females
c. Middle class
d. Children of color
ANSWER: d
14. Juveniles who were once referred to as wayward children are now called what?
a. Criminals
b. Juvenile delinquents
c. Delinquents
d. Status offenders
ANSWER: d
15. How was the rule of parens patriae first used by English kings?
a. To intervene in the lives of children whose parents were peasants and unable to care for them
b. To intervene in the lives of children who engaged in criminal acts
c. To intervene in the lives of children whose position and property were of direct concern to the monarch
d. To intervene in the lives of children who were intellectually challenged and could not care for themselves
ANSWER: c
, 16. Which of the following terms refers to the practice of setting up a fictitious online profile, most often for the
purpose of luring another into a fraudulent romantic relationship?
a. Phishing
b. Cyberbullying
c. Cyberstalking
d. Catfishing
ANSWER: d
17. A recent analysis by Johns Hopkins University found what to be the leading cause of death for children and teens
ages 1–19?
a. Knives
b. Suicide
c. Stalking
d. Guns
ANSWER: d
18. What term is defined as the oldest age at which a juvenile court has original jurisdiction over an individual for
law-violating behavior?
a. Adult waiver
b. Aging out
c. Upper age of jurisdiction
d. Primogeniture
ANSWER: b
19. What term refers to youths who have been arrested four or more times during their minority and perpetuate a
striking majority of serious criminal acts?
a. Status offender
b. Wayward child
c. Chronic delinquent
d. At-risk child
ANSWER: c
20. Early English jurisprudence held that children under what age were legally incapable of committing crimes?
a. 7
b. 8
c. 9
d. 10
ANSWER: a
