Juvenile Delinquency Final| 74 QUESTIONS| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

achieved status correct answer: a status that is earned adolescence limited offenders correct answer: the overwhelming majority of children who commit a few minor acts of delinquency on an inconsistent basis during their teen years Allen v. United States correct answer: The U.S. Supreme Court ruling stating that a child younger than 7 cannot be guilty of a felony or punished for a capital offense because he or she is presumed incapable of forming criminal intent. ascribed status correct answer: a status that is received at birth baby boomers correct answer: people born between 1946 and 1964 bootstrapping correct answer: a practice in which a chronic status offender who commits a new status offense while on probation is charged with the criminal offense of violating a formal court order that specified the conditions of that child's probation Child Savers correct answer: Reformers in the nineteenth century who believed children were basically good and blamed delinquency on a bad environment chronic status offender correct answer: Children who continue to commit status offenses despite repeated interventions by the family, school, social service, and law enforcement agencies Code of Hammurabi correct answer: one of the oldest known sets of written laws juvenile correct answer: In most states, a person younger than age 18 juvenile delinquency correct answer: Behavior that violates the criminal code and is committed by a youth who has not reached the specified adult age juvenile delinquent correct answer: Usually a person younger than age 18 who commits an illegal act and is officially processed through the juvenile or family court life-course persistent offenders correct answer: The most serious juvenile delinquents; A small group of children who engage in antisocial behavior of one sort or another at every stage of life parens patriae correct answer: A doctrine that defines the state as the ultimate guardian of every child secular law correct answer: A body of legal statutes developed separately from church or canon law