Juvenile Delinquency Exam 3
questions n answers graded A+
Trends in academic achievement - correct answer ✔✔- Assessments given to ages 9, 13, and 17
years old in reading and math
- Improvements on reading and math scores
- American students are considered average
School failure - correct answer ✔✔1. Direct relationship: More likely to engage in delinquency
2. Direct relationship: Delinquents are more likely to fail in school
3. Indirect relationship: By impacting a mediating event or experiences for juveniles
4. Spurious relationship: Causing both school failure and delinquency
Tracking - correct answer ✔✔- Juveniles are placed in classrooms or groups within the
classroom based on their perceived intellectual activities
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
System accused of segregating on both race
Alienation - correct answer ✔✔- Student's feelings of attachment and commitment to school
- Tracking can cause students to feel alienated if they do not feel
Dropout rates - correct answer ✔✔- Incredibly rare
- 1/3 of students drop out or do not graduate in time
1. Individual level characteristics of the juvenile
2. Characteristics of the school
, School shootings - correct answer ✔✔- Incredibly rare
- Youth homicides make up only 2%
School-based prevention programs - correct answer ✔✔- Would benefit from additional
education and counseling services
Bullying and cyberbullying - correct answer ✔✔- Linked to the school experience
- Direct, more indirect or threatening behavior, occurring on a computer
- Negative effects
School to Prison pipeline - correct answer ✔✔- Security enhancements and punishments
- Zero-tolerance policies
- Learning disabilities or history of poverty
- Abuse or neglect
- Would benefit from educational and counseling: Isolated, punished, and pushed out
Clique - correct answer ✔✔Small groups of friends who share activities and confidences
Flash mobs - correct answer ✔✔- A person or group of people organize a larger group via
electronic means to do something in public that is surprising
Youth gangs - correct answer ✔✔1. Members have self-recognition on their gang statusVocab,
dress, hand signals
2. Commitment to criminal activityEven the most criminal gang members spend the bulk of
their time in NONCRIMINAL activities
questions n answers graded A+
Trends in academic achievement - correct answer ✔✔- Assessments given to ages 9, 13, and 17
years old in reading and math
- Improvements on reading and math scores
- American students are considered average
School failure - correct answer ✔✔1. Direct relationship: More likely to engage in delinquency
2. Direct relationship: Delinquents are more likely to fail in school
3. Indirect relationship: By impacting a mediating event or experiences for juveniles
4. Spurious relationship: Causing both school failure and delinquency
Tracking - correct answer ✔✔- Juveniles are placed in classrooms or groups within the
classroom based on their perceived intellectual activities
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
System accused of segregating on both race
Alienation - correct answer ✔✔- Student's feelings of attachment and commitment to school
- Tracking can cause students to feel alienated if they do not feel
Dropout rates - correct answer ✔✔- Incredibly rare
- 1/3 of students drop out or do not graduate in time
1. Individual level characteristics of the juvenile
2. Characteristics of the school
, School shootings - correct answer ✔✔- Incredibly rare
- Youth homicides make up only 2%
School-based prevention programs - correct answer ✔✔- Would benefit from additional
education and counseling services
Bullying and cyberbullying - correct answer ✔✔- Linked to the school experience
- Direct, more indirect or threatening behavior, occurring on a computer
- Negative effects
School to Prison pipeline - correct answer ✔✔- Security enhancements and punishments
- Zero-tolerance policies
- Learning disabilities or history of poverty
- Abuse or neglect
- Would benefit from educational and counseling: Isolated, punished, and pushed out
Clique - correct answer ✔✔Small groups of friends who share activities and confidences
Flash mobs - correct answer ✔✔- A person or group of people organize a larger group via
electronic means to do something in public that is surprising
Youth gangs - correct answer ✔✔1. Members have self-recognition on their gang statusVocab,
dress, hand signals
2. Commitment to criminal activityEven the most criminal gang members spend the bulk of
their time in NONCRIMINAL activities
