Juvenile Delinquency Exam 1 UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
mores - CORRECT ANSWER - ______ are moral norms that may cause more outrage or
uproar if broken.
Theft
Battery
Arson
Homicide
Drug Possession - CORRECT ANSWER - Give an example of an offense which
represents a delinquent offense?
Smoking
Truancy
Curfew Violations
Running Away
Possession of Alcohol - CORRECT ANSWER - Give an example of a status offense?
Age - CORRECT ANSWER - A status offense is considered problematic because of the
______ of the person who engaged in the offense.
An act committed by a person not yet defined as an adult that violates the penal code in the
geographical area where the crime was committed - CORRECT ANSWER - The general
definition of delinquency is ______.
Folkways - CORRECT ANSWER - ______ are everyday norms that do not generate much
uproar if they are violated.
, Normative - CORRECT ANSWER - Which conception of delinquency assumes that there
is a general set of social norms, of which a consensus agrees upon?
Laws - CORRECT ANSWER - ______ are the strongest norms because they are backed
by official sanctions.
Social constructionist - CORRECT ANSWER - Which conception of delinquency suggests
that those persons in a position of political or economic power within society have the ability to
shape delinquency definitions in order to maintain their position in society?
Rehabilitated - CORRECT ANSWER - Juveniles are considered to be different from
adults because it is believed they can be ______.
Ascribed - CORRECT ANSWER - With regard to categorization, which type of category
is a person born into and cannot change, such as race/ethnicity?
Individual racism - CORRECT ANSWER - ______ is the belief in the inferiority of certain
racial or ethnic groups and is often accompanied by discrimination.
Institutional sexism - CORRECT ANSWER - ______ occurs when people are
disadvantaged or oppressed due to their sex because of the routine workings of social
institutions.
The cradle-to-prison pipeline - CORRECT ANSWER - What is the phrase to describe how
the definition of delinquency contributes to racial and ethnic differences representation in the
criminal justice system?
Rehabilitation - CORRECT ANSWER - ______ was a popular philosophy during the
Progressive era, and it was linked to the acceptance of psychological and sociological theories of
crime and delinquency at that time--theories that located the reasons for misbehavior not as
purely rational choices for which the offender was fully responsible, but as factors outside of the
conscious control of the actor.
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
mores - CORRECT ANSWER - ______ are moral norms that may cause more outrage or
uproar if broken.
Theft
Battery
Arson
Homicide
Drug Possession - CORRECT ANSWER - Give an example of an offense which
represents a delinquent offense?
Smoking
Truancy
Curfew Violations
Running Away
Possession of Alcohol - CORRECT ANSWER - Give an example of a status offense?
Age - CORRECT ANSWER - A status offense is considered problematic because of the
______ of the person who engaged in the offense.
An act committed by a person not yet defined as an adult that violates the penal code in the
geographical area where the crime was committed - CORRECT ANSWER - The general
definition of delinquency is ______.
Folkways - CORRECT ANSWER - ______ are everyday norms that do not generate much
uproar if they are violated.
, Normative - CORRECT ANSWER - Which conception of delinquency assumes that there
is a general set of social norms, of which a consensus agrees upon?
Laws - CORRECT ANSWER - ______ are the strongest norms because they are backed
by official sanctions.
Social constructionist - CORRECT ANSWER - Which conception of delinquency suggests
that those persons in a position of political or economic power within society have the ability to
shape delinquency definitions in order to maintain their position in society?
Rehabilitated - CORRECT ANSWER - Juveniles are considered to be different from
adults because it is believed they can be ______.
Ascribed - CORRECT ANSWER - With regard to categorization, which type of category
is a person born into and cannot change, such as race/ethnicity?
Individual racism - CORRECT ANSWER - ______ is the belief in the inferiority of certain
racial or ethnic groups and is often accompanied by discrimination.
Institutional sexism - CORRECT ANSWER - ______ occurs when people are
disadvantaged or oppressed due to their sex because of the routine workings of social
institutions.
The cradle-to-prison pipeline - CORRECT ANSWER - What is the phrase to describe how
the definition of delinquency contributes to racial and ethnic differences representation in the
criminal justice system?
Rehabilitation - CORRECT ANSWER - ______ was a popular philosophy during the
Progressive era, and it was linked to the acceptance of psychological and sociological theories of
crime and delinquency at that time--theories that located the reasons for misbehavior not as
purely rational choices for which the offender was fully responsible, but as factors outside of the
conscious control of the actor.
