Juvenile Delinquency Exam UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
4 things lead to criminal outlook - CORRECT ANSWER - Primacy (timing), Frequency
(more you interact with someone, more likely you are to adopt their values), Duration (how long
you have been interacting with them), Intensity (emotional quality of the relationship)
A Priori - CORRECT ANSWER - definition of the situation based on prior reasoning and
conclusion can intervene between the definitive norm and its applications which influence the
social judgment of a given act.
Achieved Status - CORRECT ANSWER - acquire social status through the exercise of
individual ability and effort or by undertaking certain status-changing experiences in life such as
attending college
Age Graded Events - CORRECT ANSWER - things we all go through, grade school,
middle, high school, getting license, things that most of us experience around the same age.
Ascribed Status - CORRECT ANSWER - a status position or level of prestige assigned
(usually at birth) to an individual on the basis of certain social criteria such as race, sex, and
parents' social status
Audience - CORRECT ANSWER - social group or society to which the actor belongs or
aspires to belong
Causes of Delinquency - CORRECT ANSWER - Begins with child, substance abuse,
alcohol (gateway drug), leads to delinquency, mental health, impulsive children, problem solving
skills, school failure, low parental warmth, harsh disciplinary practice, parental supervision,
schools not addressing problems, lack of resources, alienation, academic achievement,
delinquent peers, gangs, exposure to violence, drugs, and access to fire arms
, Child Savers - CORRECT ANSWER - Group of reformers, mostly upper middle class
women who took it upon themselves to save these lower class youth from crime and debauchery.
1800s
Child Saving Movement - CORRECT ANSWER - white middle class values, shipped kids
off to california to start learning how to work hard and get them into a better home. wouldn't
even tell parents, just send them off. Juvenile justice system comes from
Contemporary socialization views - CORRECT ANSWER - more female delinquents
come from dysfunctional homes more than do male delinquents
Deterrence Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Increase the severity and the amount of crime
will decrease
Differential Association Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - We are who we associate with
Diffusion of Responsibility - CORRECT ANSWER - Relying on everybody else to do
something about the problem, no one calls 911 because they think that someone else will react to
it, AKA bystander effect
Discipline Guidelines - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Immediate punishment, 2. consistency,
3. should always be followed with an explanation, 4. consequences should be developmentally
appropriate, 5. reinforce more than punish
Disorganized Neighborhood - CORRECT ANSWER - Heterogeneity (lots of people with
different characteristics), transience (people moving in and out all the time), Mixed use (lots of
different functions-businesses), Dilapidation (run down, broken street lights etc), Density (the
higher the density, the less organization)
Egalitarian Families - CORRECT ANSWER - husband and wife share the same power at
home. sons and daughters exhibit similar degrees of delinquency
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
4 things lead to criminal outlook - CORRECT ANSWER - Primacy (timing), Frequency
(more you interact with someone, more likely you are to adopt their values), Duration (how long
you have been interacting with them), Intensity (emotional quality of the relationship)
A Priori - CORRECT ANSWER - definition of the situation based on prior reasoning and
conclusion can intervene between the definitive norm and its applications which influence the
social judgment of a given act.
Achieved Status - CORRECT ANSWER - acquire social status through the exercise of
individual ability and effort or by undertaking certain status-changing experiences in life such as
attending college
Age Graded Events - CORRECT ANSWER - things we all go through, grade school,
middle, high school, getting license, things that most of us experience around the same age.
Ascribed Status - CORRECT ANSWER - a status position or level of prestige assigned
(usually at birth) to an individual on the basis of certain social criteria such as race, sex, and
parents' social status
Audience - CORRECT ANSWER - social group or society to which the actor belongs or
aspires to belong
Causes of Delinquency - CORRECT ANSWER - Begins with child, substance abuse,
alcohol (gateway drug), leads to delinquency, mental health, impulsive children, problem solving
skills, school failure, low parental warmth, harsh disciplinary practice, parental supervision,
schools not addressing problems, lack of resources, alienation, academic achievement,
delinquent peers, gangs, exposure to violence, drugs, and access to fire arms
, Child Savers - CORRECT ANSWER - Group of reformers, mostly upper middle class
women who took it upon themselves to save these lower class youth from crime and debauchery.
1800s
Child Saving Movement - CORRECT ANSWER - white middle class values, shipped kids
off to california to start learning how to work hard and get them into a better home. wouldn't
even tell parents, just send them off. Juvenile justice system comes from
Contemporary socialization views - CORRECT ANSWER - more female delinquents
come from dysfunctional homes more than do male delinquents
Deterrence Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Increase the severity and the amount of crime
will decrease
Differential Association Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - We are who we associate with
Diffusion of Responsibility - CORRECT ANSWER - Relying on everybody else to do
something about the problem, no one calls 911 because they think that someone else will react to
it, AKA bystander effect
Discipline Guidelines - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Immediate punishment, 2. consistency,
3. should always be followed with an explanation, 4. consequences should be developmentally
appropriate, 5. reinforce more than punish
Disorganized Neighborhood - CORRECT ANSWER - Heterogeneity (lots of people with
different characteristics), transience (people moving in and out all the time), Mixed use (lots of
different functions-businesses), Dilapidation (run down, broken street lights etc), Density (the
higher the density, the less organization)
Egalitarian Families - CORRECT ANSWER - husband and wife share the same power at
home. sons and daughters exhibit similar degrees of delinquency
