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Chapter 1
Multiple Choice
1. __________ status is received at birth; it partly determines what opportunities are available
and, thus, what can be achieved.
A) Attained
B) Ascribed
C) Achieved
D) Birthright
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Status of Children
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 5, Status of Children
Taxonomy: Recall
2. Early attempts to regulate juvenile behavior included:
A) sending children to private boarding schools.
B) hospitalizing children who misbehaved.
C) implementing rigid laws with equally severe punishments for children as for adults.
D) offering children who misbehaved classes devoted to normalizing their behavior.
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Early Prohibitions of Juvenile Behavior
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, pages 8-12, Early Prohibitions of Juvenile Behavior
Taxonomy: Recall
3. One of the oldest written laws with specific penalties for crimes committed by children was:
A) the Code of Hammurabi.
B) secular law.
C) the Stubborn Child Law.
D) parens patriae.
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Early Prohibitions of Juvenile Behavior
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 8, Early Prohibitions of Juvenile Behavior
Taxonomy: Recall
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Chapter 1
4. During the 18th and 19th centuries, children under age 7 were presumed to be:
A) criminal masterminds taught by London’s underground criminal world.
B) a special class of criminals in need of distinctly different treatment than adults.
C) incapable of harboring criminal intent.
D) in need of psychiatric treatment.
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: The Middle Ages
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 10, The Middle Ages
Taxonomy: Recall
5. In the early American colonies, legislation was passed to prevent which of the following,
“where young children are easily corrupted”?
A) Summer camps
B) Sloth and idleness
C) Groups of children from congregating without an adult present
D) After-school programs
Ans: B
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: American Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 11, American Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
6. The text for which of the following was drawn nearly verbatim from the Bible’s Book of
Deuteronomy?
A) Code of Hammurabi
B) Secular law
C) Stubborn Child Law
D) Public Caning of Children
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: American Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 11, American Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
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7. The Child Savers tried to prevent delinquency by:
A) forcibly removing children from their homes if they exhibited “bad” behavior.
B) developing group homes and community halfway houses for errant and wayward youth.
C) removing children from bad homes and placing them in good environments.
D) lobbying to increase the number of juvenile officers within police departments.
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: American Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 12, American Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
8. In the mid-19th century, approximately 200,000 children were placed on orphan trains within
the United States and:
A) adopted by Christian farming families.
B) underwent a trial year before being sent back to the Children’s Aid Society.
C) generally treated harshly and used as cheap domestic help.
D) All of these are correct.
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: American Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 13, American Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
9. Which of the following is an act considered illegal only for children?
A) Status offense
B) Secular offense
C) De minimus
D) Parens patriae
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: American Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 13, American Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
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Chapter 1
10. In the 1970s, the International Association of Chiefs of Police suggested that which of the
following terms be applied to children who commit status offenses, are ungovernable or
habitually truant from school, and are in need of treatment for those problems?
A) Juvenile delinquent
B) Unruly child
C) Institutional child
D) Status-avert child
Ans: B
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Definitions of Juvenile Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 16, Definitions of Juvenile Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
11. The most serious delinquents are which of the following and represent a small group of
individuals who engage in some type of antisocial behavior at every stage of life?
A) Life-course persistent offenders
B) Chronic status offenders
C) Adolescence-limited offenders
D) None of these is correct.
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: What Is Delinquency? Who Is a Delinquent?
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 22-23, What is Delinquency? Who is a Delinquent?
Taxonomy: Recall
12. Nineteenth-century concerns about the behavior of the “dangerous classes” led social
reformers to:
A) advocate anti-immigration legislation.
B) advocate the sterilization of parents of delinquents.
C) teach immigrant parents better child-rearing skills.
D) punish parents for the misbehavior of their children.
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: American Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 14, American Delinquency
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Chapter 1
Taxonomy: Recall
13. ___________ is an example of an ascribed status.
A) Being 14 years of age
B) Being male
C) Being athletic
D) None of these is correct.
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
A-head: Status of Children
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 5, Status of Children
Taxonomy: Recall
14. Which of the following is an example of an achieved status?
A) Being African American
B) Being female
C) Being a university student
D) Being 14 years of age
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
A-head: Status of Children
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 5, Status of Children
Taxonomy: Application
15. The New York House of Refuge:
A) was instrumental in the creation of the juvenile court.
B) was organized around the premise that children needed rehabilitation.
C) forced children into a hostile environment with an emphasis on remorse and punishment.
D) All of these are correct.
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
A-head: American Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 13-14, American Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
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Chapter 1
16. In the newly founded juvenile court, the judge was to be a:
A) wise and kind parent.
B) punitive disciplinarian.
C) preserver of constitutional rights and liberties.
D) disinterested appraiser of fact.
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
A-head: American Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 14, American Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
17. Holding parents responsible for the actions of their children first emerged in the legal system
during the:
A) Middle Ages.
B) American colonial times.
C) Greek Empire.
D) Roman Empire.
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
A-head: Early Prohibitions of Juvenile Behavior
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 8, Early Prohibitions of Juvenile Behavior
Taxonomy: Recall
18. During the Middle Ages:
A) children were viewed more like miniature adults than they are today.
B) girls were not arrested, but placed into houses of refuge.
C) legal regulation existed through the Stubborn Child Law.
D) abused and neglected children were taken care of under the Code of Hammurabi.
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
A-head: The Middle Ages
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 8-10, The Middle Ages
Taxonomy: Recall
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Chapter 1
19. Which of the following is a broad, generic term that includes diverse forms of antisocial
behavior by a child?
A) Child vagrancy
B) Juvenile delinquency
C) Status offender
D) Juvenile antisocialness
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
A-head: Definitions of Juvenile Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 15, Definitions of Juvenile Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
20. PINS stands for:
A) prisoner in the national system.
B) person in need of something.
C) probation investigation network system.
D) person in need of supervision.
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
A-head: Definitions of Juvenile Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 17, Definitions of Juvenile Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
21. Chapter 1 discussed the difference in forms of status. _____ is an example of an ascribed
status; _____ is an example of an achieved status.
A) Being male; athleticism
B) Being 14 years old; being Latina
C) Intelligence; child neglect
D) Juvenile delinquency; being African American
Ans: A
Pages: 4–5
22. The case of Mary Ellen Wilson is significant because:
A) she was the first juvenile delinquent tried in juvenile court.
B) at the time, there was no criminal statute in place to protect her from abusive adults.
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C) it resulted in the passage of the first juvenile court act.
D) the public outcry it caused immediately improved the well-being of children.
Ans: B
Pages: 6–7
23. According to the text, evidence that the status of “child” is a devalued one would include:
A) the ordained whipping conducted by parents under the supervision of Pastor Allen.
B) the nearly 1 million children who were confirmed by state child protective service agencies as
having been abused or neglected by their adult caretakers in the United States in 2008.
C) “stubborn child” laws in the American colonies.
D) that anti–animal cruelty laws were used to remove Mary Ellen Wilson from her home.
E) All of these are correct.
Ans: E
Pages: 7–12
24. Early attempts to regulate juvenile behavior included:
A) sending children to private boarding schools.
B) hospitalizing children who misbehaved.
C) implementing rigid laws with equally severe punishments for children as adults.
D) offering children who misbehaved classes devoted to normalizing their behavior.
Ans: C
Pages: 8–12
25. The Puritans linked delinquency and _____; children who misbehaved violated _____ law.
A) inheritance; custodial
B) inheritance; family
C) sin; God’s
D) work; civil
Ans: C
Pages: 10–11
26. In the colonial era,
A) laws were passed to prevent “sloth and idleness” among children.
B) the death penalty could be imposed on children as young as age 6.
C) children were protected by law from abuse at the hands of their parents.
D) “stubborn” children were sent off on orphan trains.
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Important Notes
The file includes the complete test bank, organized chapter by chapter.
A sample of selected pages has been provided for preview.
All available appendices and Excel files (if included in the original resources) are
provided.
Quizzes, Midterm and final exams are included (if available in the original resources).
We continuously update our files to ensure you receive the latest and most accurate
editions.
New editions are added regularly – stay connected for updates!
⚠️Note on Answer Keys: If the answer key is not included within the chapter
questions, you will find the complete answers and solutions at the end of each
chapter.
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📚 Complete & organized chapter-by-chapter – no missing content, no guessing.
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,Delinquency in Society, 11th Edition
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Test Bank
Chapter 1
Multiple Choice
1. __________ status is received at birth; it partly determines what opportunities are available
and, thus, what can be achieved.
A) Attained
B) Ascribed
C) Achieved
D) Birthright
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Status of Children
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 5, Status of Children
Taxonomy: Recall
2. Early attempts to regulate juvenile behavior included:
A) sending children to private boarding schools.
B) hospitalizing children who misbehaved.
C) implementing rigid laws with equally severe punishments for children as for adults.
D) offering children who misbehaved classes devoted to normalizing their behavior.
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Early Prohibitions of Juvenile Behavior
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, pages 8-12, Early Prohibitions of Juvenile Behavior
Taxonomy: Recall
3. One of the oldest written laws with specific penalties for crimes committed by children was:
A) the Code of Hammurabi.
B) secular law.
C) the Stubborn Child Law.
D) parens patriae.
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Early Prohibitions of Juvenile Behavior
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 8, Early Prohibitions of Juvenile Behavior
Taxonomy: Recall
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Chapter 1
4. During the 18th and 19th centuries, children under age 7 were presumed to be:
A) criminal masterminds taught by London’s underground criminal world.
B) a special class of criminals in need of distinctly different treatment than adults.
C) incapable of harboring criminal intent.
D) in need of psychiatric treatment.
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: The Middle Ages
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 10, The Middle Ages
Taxonomy: Recall
5. In the early American colonies, legislation was passed to prevent which of the following,
“where young children are easily corrupted”?
A) Summer camps
B) Sloth and idleness
C) Groups of children from congregating without an adult present
D) After-school programs
Ans: B
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: American Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 11, American Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
6. The text for which of the following was drawn nearly verbatim from the Bible’s Book of
Deuteronomy?
A) Code of Hammurabi
B) Secular law
C) Stubborn Child Law
D) Public Caning of Children
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: American Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 11, American Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
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Chapter 1
7. The Child Savers tried to prevent delinquency by:
A) forcibly removing children from their homes if they exhibited “bad” behavior.
B) developing group homes and community halfway houses for errant and wayward youth.
C) removing children from bad homes and placing them in good environments.
D) lobbying to increase the number of juvenile officers within police departments.
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: American Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 12, American Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
8. In the mid-19th century, approximately 200,000 children were placed on orphan trains within
the United States and:
A) adopted by Christian farming families.
B) underwent a trial year before being sent back to the Children’s Aid Society.
C) generally treated harshly and used as cheap domestic help.
D) All of these are correct.
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: American Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 13, American Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
9. Which of the following is an act considered illegal only for children?
A) Status offense
B) Secular offense
C) De minimus
D) Parens patriae
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: American Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 13, American Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
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Chapter 1
10. In the 1970s, the International Association of Chiefs of Police suggested that which of the
following terms be applied to children who commit status offenses, are ungovernable or
habitually truant from school, and are in need of treatment for those problems?
A) Juvenile delinquent
B) Unruly child
C) Institutional child
D) Status-avert child
Ans: B
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Definitions of Juvenile Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 16, Definitions of Juvenile Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
11. The most serious delinquents are which of the following and represent a small group of
individuals who engage in some type of antisocial behavior at every stage of life?
A) Life-course persistent offenders
B) Chronic status offenders
C) Adolescence-limited offenders
D) None of these is correct.
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: What Is Delinquency? Who Is a Delinquent?
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 22-23, What is Delinquency? Who is a Delinquent?
Taxonomy: Recall
12. Nineteenth-century concerns about the behavior of the “dangerous classes” led social
reformers to:
A) advocate anti-immigration legislation.
B) advocate the sterilization of parents of delinquents.
C) teach immigrant parents better child-rearing skills.
D) punish parents for the misbehavior of their children.
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: American Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 14, American Delinquency
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Chapter 1
Taxonomy: Recall
13. ___________ is an example of an ascribed status.
A) Being 14 years of age
B) Being male
C) Being athletic
D) None of these is correct.
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
A-head: Status of Children
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 5, Status of Children
Taxonomy: Recall
14. Which of the following is an example of an achieved status?
A) Being African American
B) Being female
C) Being a university student
D) Being 14 years of age
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
A-head: Status of Children
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 5, Status of Children
Taxonomy: Application
15. The New York House of Refuge:
A) was instrumental in the creation of the juvenile court.
B) was organized around the premise that children needed rehabilitation.
C) forced children into a hostile environment with an emphasis on remorse and punishment.
D) All of these are correct.
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
A-head: American Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 13-14, American Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
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Chapter 1
16. In the newly founded juvenile court, the judge was to be a:
A) wise and kind parent.
B) punitive disciplinarian.
C) preserver of constitutional rights and liberties.
D) disinterested appraiser of fact.
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
A-head: American Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 14, American Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
17. Holding parents responsible for the actions of their children first emerged in the legal system
during the:
A) Middle Ages.
B) American colonial times.
C) Greek Empire.
D) Roman Empire.
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
A-head: Early Prohibitions of Juvenile Behavior
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 8, Early Prohibitions of Juvenile Behavior
Taxonomy: Recall
18. During the Middle Ages:
A) children were viewed more like miniature adults than they are today.
B) girls were not arrested, but placed into houses of refuge.
C) legal regulation existed through the Stubborn Child Law.
D) abused and neglected children were taken care of under the Code of Hammurabi.
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
A-head: The Middle Ages
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 8-10, The Middle Ages
Taxonomy: Recall
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Chapter 1
19. Which of the following is a broad, generic term that includes diverse forms of antisocial
behavior by a child?
A) Child vagrancy
B) Juvenile delinquency
C) Status offender
D) Juvenile antisocialness
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
A-head: Definitions of Juvenile Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 15, Definitions of Juvenile Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
20. PINS stands for:
A) prisoner in the national system.
B) person in need of something.
C) probation investigation network system.
D) person in need of supervision.
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
A-head: Definitions of Juvenile Delinquency
Subject: Chapter 1
Feedback: Chapter 1, page 17, Definitions of Juvenile Delinquency
Taxonomy: Recall
21. Chapter 1 discussed the difference in forms of status. _____ is an example of an ascribed
status; _____ is an example of an achieved status.
A) Being male; athleticism
B) Being 14 years old; being Latina
C) Intelligence; child neglect
D) Juvenile delinquency; being African American
Ans: A
Pages: 4–5
22. The case of Mary Ellen Wilson is significant because:
A) she was the first juvenile delinquent tried in juvenile court.
B) at the time, there was no criminal statute in place to protect her from abusive adults.
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C) it resulted in the passage of the first juvenile court act.
D) the public outcry it caused immediately improved the well-being of children.
Ans: B
Pages: 6–7
23. According to the text, evidence that the status of “child” is a devalued one would include:
A) the ordained whipping conducted by parents under the supervision of Pastor Allen.
B) the nearly 1 million children who were confirmed by state child protective service agencies as
having been abused or neglected by their adult caretakers in the United States in 2008.
C) “stubborn child” laws in the American colonies.
D) that anti–animal cruelty laws were used to remove Mary Ellen Wilson from her home.
E) All of these are correct.
Ans: E
Pages: 7–12
24. Early attempts to regulate juvenile behavior included:
A) sending children to private boarding schools.
B) hospitalizing children who misbehaved.
C) implementing rigid laws with equally severe punishments for children as adults.
D) offering children who misbehaved classes devoted to normalizing their behavior.
Ans: C
Pages: 8–12
25. The Puritans linked delinquency and _____; children who misbehaved violated _____ law.
A) inheritance; custodial
B) inheritance; family
C) sin; God’s
D) work; civil
Ans: C
Pages: 10–11
26. In the colonial era,
A) laws were passed to prevent “sloth and idleness” among children.
B) the death penalty could be imposed on children as young as age 6.
C) children were protected by law from abuse at the hands of their parents.
D) “stubborn” children were sent off on orphan trains.
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