CJC 376 - Midterm Exam Questions and
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What are the common myths about child maltreatment? - ✔✔- The greatest
risk to children is outside of their home
- Child maltreatment is an increasingly serious problem
- Risk factors always lead to child maltreatment
- Sometimes child maltreatment just happens and we should not make too
much about it
- Minor acts of child maltreatment are always trivial and inconsequential
Are children the "most victimized" group in society? - ✔✔Yes
- Children are not only victims to the same conventional crimes as adults,
but also crimes adults cannot be victims of
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,- The NCVS doesn't gauge "true" scope of violence against children, so
child victimization data is underestimated
- Children are physically vulnerable (e.g. they are small and weak)
Why do children have such a high risk for victimization? - ✔✔- Children's
developmental immaturity
- Society's tolerance for offenses against children
- Children's ability to regulate/choose who they associate/interact with
Why is this high vulnerability of children for victimization not more
widely recognized? - ✔✔Statistics
- Inadequacies of official statistics
Competing stereotypes in the media about the problems of juveniles and
crime
- Attention to juvenile delinquency over juvenile victimization
- Delinquency prevention is the priority of adults
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, Have we ever shown concern for child victimization? - ✔✔- Child
victimization is sometimes exaggerated
- Often the concern is more symbolic than substantive
Explain: Fragmentation in light of child victimization. - ✔✔- Certain types
of crimes have been fragmented by agencies/academics/researchers
- Breaking down their understanding
What are the 6 pitfalls of fragmentation? - ✔✔- Fragmentation promotes
only a partial understanding of the problem; cannot come up with solution
- Common risk factors co-occur and create vulnerability for a wide variety
of victimizations
- Fragmented response may lead to misunderstandings about what is most
damaging and deserving of priority treatment
- Fragmentation response may fail to get practitioners to target the problem
that most needs addressing
- Fragmentation results in inefficiency, duplication of effort, and
unnecessary competition
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Answers 100% pass
What are the common myths about child maltreatment? - ✔✔- The greatest
risk to children is outside of their home
- Child maltreatment is an increasingly serious problem
- Risk factors always lead to child maltreatment
- Sometimes child maltreatment just happens and we should not make too
much about it
- Minor acts of child maltreatment are always trivial and inconsequential
Are children the "most victimized" group in society? - ✔✔Yes
- Children are not only victims to the same conventional crimes as adults,
but also crimes adults cannot be victims of
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100% Pass Guarantee Katelyn Whitman, All Rights
,- The NCVS doesn't gauge "true" scope of violence against children, so
child victimization data is underestimated
- Children are physically vulnerable (e.g. they are small and weak)
Why do children have such a high risk for victimization? - ✔✔- Children's
developmental immaturity
- Society's tolerance for offenses against children
- Children's ability to regulate/choose who they associate/interact with
Why is this high vulnerability of children for victimization not more
widely recognized? - ✔✔Statistics
- Inadequacies of official statistics
Competing stereotypes in the media about the problems of juveniles and
crime
- Attention to juvenile delinquency over juvenile victimization
- Delinquency prevention is the priority of adults
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, Have we ever shown concern for child victimization? - ✔✔- Child
victimization is sometimes exaggerated
- Often the concern is more symbolic than substantive
Explain: Fragmentation in light of child victimization. - ✔✔- Certain types
of crimes have been fragmented by agencies/academics/researchers
- Breaking down their understanding
What are the 6 pitfalls of fragmentation? - ✔✔- Fragmentation promotes
only a partial understanding of the problem; cannot come up with solution
- Common risk factors co-occur and create vulnerability for a wide variety
of victimizations
- Fragmented response may lead to misunderstandings about what is most
damaging and deserving of priority treatment
- Fragmentation response may fail to get practitioners to target the problem
that most needs addressing
- Fragmentation results in inefficiency, duplication of effort, and
unnecessary competition
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