Juvenile Delinquency Test 1 questions
n answers
young people who are extremely vulnerable to the negative consequences of school failure,
substance abuse, and early sexuality - correct answer ✔✔at-risk youth
5 most pressing problems with at-risk youth - correct answer ✔✔1. poverty
2. health and mortality problems
3. family problems
4. substandard living conditions
5. inadequate education
What is the biggest issue with cyberspace? - correct answer ✔✔Cyberbullying; 1 out of every 5
kids have experienced cyberbullying
participation in illegal behavior by a minor who falls under a statutory age limit - correct answer
✔✔juvenile delinquency
the segment of the justice system, including law enforcement officers, the courts and
correctional agencies, that is designed to treat youthful offenders - correct answer ✔✔juvenile
justice system
a family style wherein the father is the final authority on all family matters and exercises
complete control over his wife and children - correct answer ✔✔paternalistic family
, English statutes that allowed the courts to appoint overseers for destitute and neglected
children, allowing placement of these children as servants in the homes of the affluent - correct
answer ✔✔poor laws
court proceedings created in fifteenth century England to oversee the lives of highborn minors
who are orphaned or otherwise could not care for themselves - correct answer ✔✔chancery
courts
the power of the state to act on behalf of the child and provide care and protection equivalent
to that of a parent - correct answer ✔✔parens patriae
when were delinquent, neglected, and runaway children treated in the same way as adult
criminal offenders? - correct answer ✔✔nineteenth century
what gave rise to increased numbers of young people at risk, who overwhelmed the existing
system of work and training? - correct answer ✔✔urbanization
what did they do to accommodate destitute youth after the beginning of urbanization? - correct
answer ✔✔local jurisdictions developed poorhouses and workhouses
nineteenth century reformers who developed programs for troubled youth and influenced
legislation creating the juvenile justice system; today some critics view them as being more
concerned with control of the poor than with their welfare - correct answer ✔✔child savers
a care facility developed by the child savers to protect potential criminal youths by taking them
off the street and providing a family-like environment; opened in New York and others were
opened elsewhere during the mid 1800s - correct answer ✔✔House of Refuge
child-saving organization that took children from the streets of large cities and placed them with
farm families on the prairie - correct answer ✔✔Children's Aid Society
n answers
young people who are extremely vulnerable to the negative consequences of school failure,
substance abuse, and early sexuality - correct answer ✔✔at-risk youth
5 most pressing problems with at-risk youth - correct answer ✔✔1. poverty
2. health and mortality problems
3. family problems
4. substandard living conditions
5. inadequate education
What is the biggest issue with cyberspace? - correct answer ✔✔Cyberbullying; 1 out of every 5
kids have experienced cyberbullying
participation in illegal behavior by a minor who falls under a statutory age limit - correct answer
✔✔juvenile delinquency
the segment of the justice system, including law enforcement officers, the courts and
correctional agencies, that is designed to treat youthful offenders - correct answer ✔✔juvenile
justice system
a family style wherein the father is the final authority on all family matters and exercises
complete control over his wife and children - correct answer ✔✔paternalistic family
, English statutes that allowed the courts to appoint overseers for destitute and neglected
children, allowing placement of these children as servants in the homes of the affluent - correct
answer ✔✔poor laws
court proceedings created in fifteenth century England to oversee the lives of highborn minors
who are orphaned or otherwise could not care for themselves - correct answer ✔✔chancery
courts
the power of the state to act on behalf of the child and provide care and protection equivalent
to that of a parent - correct answer ✔✔parens patriae
when were delinquent, neglected, and runaway children treated in the same way as adult
criminal offenders? - correct answer ✔✔nineteenth century
what gave rise to increased numbers of young people at risk, who overwhelmed the existing
system of work and training? - correct answer ✔✔urbanization
what did they do to accommodate destitute youth after the beginning of urbanization? - correct
answer ✔✔local jurisdictions developed poorhouses and workhouses
nineteenth century reformers who developed programs for troubled youth and influenced
legislation creating the juvenile justice system; today some critics view them as being more
concerned with control of the poor than with their welfare - correct answer ✔✔child savers
a care facility developed by the child savers to protect potential criminal youths by taking them
off the street and providing a family-like environment; opened in New York and others were
opened elsewhere during the mid 1800s - correct answer ✔✔House of Refuge
child-saving organization that took children from the streets of large cities and placed them with
farm families on the prairie - correct answer ✔✔Children's Aid Society
