Juvenile Delinquency Test 1, Chapters
1-3 questions well answered
Folkways - correct answer ✔✔Lessons learned from childhood
Ex: no burping at the dinner table; take hat off in someone's house
Mores - correct answer ✔✔Established practices and customs
Ex: National anthem; singing or taking hats off during anthem
Laws - correct answer ✔✔Written, codified. Violations could involve legal trouble
Ex: MUST pay taxes or be arrested for tax evasion
Status - correct answer ✔✔A socially defined position within a group
Status Offenses - correct answer ✔✔Acts that are crimes for children only, such as a truancy,
incorrigibility, and idleness
Crime - correct answer ✔✔An act in violation of criminal law that causes harm, is identified by
the law, committed with criminal intent, and subject to punishment by the state.
Juvenile Delinquency - correct answer ✔✔1. Behavior committed by a minor child that violates
a state's penal code.
2. Participation in illegal behavior by a minor who falls under a statutory age limit.
Secret Delinquency - correct answer ✔✔Individuals performing acts that violate a state's penal
code, but never gets caught.
, Juvenile Court - correct answer ✔✔Court that has original jurisdiction over persons defined by
statute as juveniles and alleged to be delinquents, status offenders, or dependents.
Formal Social Controls - correct answer ✔✔Mechanisms used within context of institutions such
as schools, churches, and justice systems that promote and encourage conformity and sanction
deviance.
Informal Social Controls - correct answer ✔✔Characteristics of social relations that bring about
conformity, including parental supervision; sensitivity to others (their feelings, wishes, and
expectations); identification with others, emotional detachment, and informal sanctions,
including withdrawal of affection, disregard, and ridicule.
Direct Controls - correct answer ✔✔Restrictions and punishments imposed by others that limits
behavior and rewards that encourage and reinforce behavior.
Indirect Controls - correct answer ✔✔Pressures and reasons to conform that are based on
affectional identification with others, especially parents, such that people conform in order to
maintain relationship bonds and to avoid disappointing others.
At-risk youth - correct answer ✔✔Young people who are extremely vulnerable to the negative
consequences of school failure, substance abuse, and early sexuality.
Cyberbullying - correct answer ✔✔Willful and repeated harm inflicted though Internet social
media sites or electronic communication methods such as Twitter.
Examples of cyberbullying - correct answer ✔✔Sexting, cyber stalking, and cyber bullying.
Chronic delinquent offenders - correct answer ✔✔Youths who have been arrested four or more
times during their minority and perpetuate a striking majority of serious criminal acts. This small
1-3 questions well answered
Folkways - correct answer ✔✔Lessons learned from childhood
Ex: no burping at the dinner table; take hat off in someone's house
Mores - correct answer ✔✔Established practices and customs
Ex: National anthem; singing or taking hats off during anthem
Laws - correct answer ✔✔Written, codified. Violations could involve legal trouble
Ex: MUST pay taxes or be arrested for tax evasion
Status - correct answer ✔✔A socially defined position within a group
Status Offenses - correct answer ✔✔Acts that are crimes for children only, such as a truancy,
incorrigibility, and idleness
Crime - correct answer ✔✔An act in violation of criminal law that causes harm, is identified by
the law, committed with criminal intent, and subject to punishment by the state.
Juvenile Delinquency - correct answer ✔✔1. Behavior committed by a minor child that violates
a state's penal code.
2. Participation in illegal behavior by a minor who falls under a statutory age limit.
Secret Delinquency - correct answer ✔✔Individuals performing acts that violate a state's penal
code, but never gets caught.
, Juvenile Court - correct answer ✔✔Court that has original jurisdiction over persons defined by
statute as juveniles and alleged to be delinquents, status offenders, or dependents.
Formal Social Controls - correct answer ✔✔Mechanisms used within context of institutions such
as schools, churches, and justice systems that promote and encourage conformity and sanction
deviance.
Informal Social Controls - correct answer ✔✔Characteristics of social relations that bring about
conformity, including parental supervision; sensitivity to others (their feelings, wishes, and
expectations); identification with others, emotional detachment, and informal sanctions,
including withdrawal of affection, disregard, and ridicule.
Direct Controls - correct answer ✔✔Restrictions and punishments imposed by others that limits
behavior and rewards that encourage and reinforce behavior.
Indirect Controls - correct answer ✔✔Pressures and reasons to conform that are based on
affectional identification with others, especially parents, such that people conform in order to
maintain relationship bonds and to avoid disappointing others.
At-risk youth - correct answer ✔✔Young people who are extremely vulnerable to the negative
consequences of school failure, substance abuse, and early sexuality.
Cyberbullying - correct answer ✔✔Willful and repeated harm inflicted though Internet social
media sites or electronic communication methods such as Twitter.
Examples of cyberbullying - correct answer ✔✔Sexting, cyber stalking, and cyber bullying.
Chronic delinquent offenders - correct answer ✔✔Youths who have been arrested four or more
times during their minority and perpetuate a striking majority of serious criminal acts. This small
