Juvenile Delinquency FINAL EXAM
questions with detailed answers
Dark figure - correct answer ✔✔In relation to UCR criticism its focus on only serious index
offenses and the underreporting by citizens - the unreported crimes
Delinquency - correct answer ✔✔Conduct that subjects a juvenile individual to the jurisdiction
of the juvenile court
Criminal delinquency - correct answer ✔✔Delineation of activity that is illegal regardless of the
age of the offender
Status delinquency - correct answer ✔✔Behavior not classified as criminal but still accounted
for, it is only illegal if it is committed by persons of a certain age
MTF Survey (monitor the future) - correct answer ✔✔A self-report survey, administered
annually to high school seniors, college students, and young adults, that include both serious
and less serious offenses, such as robbery, aggravated assault, hitting teachers, use of weapons,
group fighting and drug usage
NYS (national youth survey) - correct answer ✔✔A self-report survey administered to 11-17
year old youths that tap information on index offenses
NIBRS (national incident based reporting system) - correct answer ✔✔An incident-based
reporting system used by law enforcement agencies in the United States for collecting and
reporting data on crimes. Local, state and federal agencies generate data from their records
management systems.
, UCR (uniform crime report) - correct answer ✔✔Annually collected and gathered by the FBI,
which provides information on the numbers of offenses that come to the attention of police/
number of arrest the police make/ and number of referrals by the police to the juvenile court.
NCVS - correct answer ✔✔Bureau of the Census & Bureau of Justice Statistics asks large
national sample (ages 12 and up) about their experiences as victims during a given period of
time
Self-report - correct answer ✔✔Surveys that attempt to gauge the level of delinquency by
asking individuals to tell their own participation in deviant activity
Cohort studies - correct answer ✔✔A study that observes a group of individuals who meet a set
of demographic, economic, educational or other criteria
Waiver/transfer - correct answer ✔✔Influential factor on juvenile court jurisdiction includes
provisions that may send a youth to adult court. A process by which a juvenile is sent to the
adult criminal system for disposition and handling
Ex parte Crouse - correct answer ✔✔PA supreme court rules that Parens Patriae is sufficient
basis for intervening in the lives of the juvenile's without parental consent
House of Refuge - correct answer ✔✔Early institutions for children that were designed to
separate the youth from the detrimental environment of the city
Kent v. US - correct answer ✔✔Parens Patriae is seriously questioned in the light of the lack of
adequate help and treatment in the juvenile system, couples with the lack of due process in
cases; this was the U.S. Supreme Court's first examination of juvenile court processing
Parens patriae - correct answer ✔✔Doctrine was gradually applied to children throughout the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and has since evolved from one granting absolute rights
questions with detailed answers
Dark figure - correct answer ✔✔In relation to UCR criticism its focus on only serious index
offenses and the underreporting by citizens - the unreported crimes
Delinquency - correct answer ✔✔Conduct that subjects a juvenile individual to the jurisdiction
of the juvenile court
Criminal delinquency - correct answer ✔✔Delineation of activity that is illegal regardless of the
age of the offender
Status delinquency - correct answer ✔✔Behavior not classified as criminal but still accounted
for, it is only illegal if it is committed by persons of a certain age
MTF Survey (monitor the future) - correct answer ✔✔A self-report survey, administered
annually to high school seniors, college students, and young adults, that include both serious
and less serious offenses, such as robbery, aggravated assault, hitting teachers, use of weapons,
group fighting and drug usage
NYS (national youth survey) - correct answer ✔✔A self-report survey administered to 11-17
year old youths that tap information on index offenses
NIBRS (national incident based reporting system) - correct answer ✔✔An incident-based
reporting system used by law enforcement agencies in the United States for collecting and
reporting data on crimes. Local, state and federal agencies generate data from their records
management systems.
, UCR (uniform crime report) - correct answer ✔✔Annually collected and gathered by the FBI,
which provides information on the numbers of offenses that come to the attention of police/
number of arrest the police make/ and number of referrals by the police to the juvenile court.
NCVS - correct answer ✔✔Bureau of the Census & Bureau of Justice Statistics asks large
national sample (ages 12 and up) about their experiences as victims during a given period of
time
Self-report - correct answer ✔✔Surveys that attempt to gauge the level of delinquency by
asking individuals to tell their own participation in deviant activity
Cohort studies - correct answer ✔✔A study that observes a group of individuals who meet a set
of demographic, economic, educational or other criteria
Waiver/transfer - correct answer ✔✔Influential factor on juvenile court jurisdiction includes
provisions that may send a youth to adult court. A process by which a juvenile is sent to the
adult criminal system for disposition and handling
Ex parte Crouse - correct answer ✔✔PA supreme court rules that Parens Patriae is sufficient
basis for intervening in the lives of the juvenile's without parental consent
House of Refuge - correct answer ✔✔Early institutions for children that were designed to
separate the youth from the detrimental environment of the city
Kent v. US - correct answer ✔✔Parens Patriae is seriously questioned in the light of the lack of
adequate help and treatment in the juvenile system, couples with the lack of due process in
cases; this was the U.S. Supreme Court's first examination of juvenile court processing
Parens patriae - correct answer ✔✔Doctrine was gradually applied to children throughout the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and has since evolved from one granting absolute rights
