Juvenile Delinquency Exam Questions
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4 things lead to criminal outlook - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔things we all go through, grade school, middle, high school,
getting license, things that most of us experience around the same age.
Ascribed Status - ✔✔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
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, Audience - ✔✔social group or society to which the actor belongs or aspires to belong
Causes of Delinquency - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔more female delinquents come from
dysfunctional homes more than do male delinquents
Deterrence Theory - ✔✔Increase the severity and the amount of crime will decrease
Differential Association Theory - ✔✔We are who we associate with
Diffusion of Responsibility - ✔✔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
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4 things lead to criminal outlook - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔things we all go through, grade school, middle, high school,
getting license, things that most of us experience around the same age.
Ascribed Status - ✔✔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
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, Audience - ✔✔social group or society to which the actor belongs or aspires to belong
Causes of Delinquency - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔more female delinquents come from
dysfunctional homes more than do male delinquents
Deterrence Theory - ✔✔Increase the severity and the amount of crime will decrease
Differential Association Theory - ✔✔We are who we associate with
Diffusion of Responsibility - ✔✔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
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