Juvenile Delinquency Exam 1 with complete solution
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Juvenile Delinquency Exam 1 with complete solution
Today there are __________________ children in the United States.
75 million
A hundred and fifty years ago girls matured sexually at age 16. Today they do so at _____ years of age.
12.5
__________________ is formed when youths develop a firm...
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Juvenile Delinquency Exam 1 with complete solution
Today there are __________________ children in the United States.
75 million
A hundred and fifty years ago girls matured sexually at age 16. Today they do so at
_____ years of age.
12.5
__________________ is formed when youths develop a firm sense of who they are and
what they stand for.
Ego identity
According to Erik Erikson, role diffusion occurs when youths:
experience uncertainty when they place themselves at the mercy of leaders who
promise to give them a sense of identity they cannot develop for themselves
Approximately what percent of American children are considered to be "at-risk?"
25%
Which of the following statements about children in the U.S. is false?
a. Children who grow up in low-income homes are less likely to achieve in school
b. Proportionately Hispanic and Black children are about three times as likely to be poor
than their white peers
c. The younger the child, the more likely they are to live in extreme poverty
d. It is now estimated that only 10 percent of fourth graders in U.S. public schools
cannot read at grade level
D
Which of the following statements about U.S. youths is true?
Family dissolution and disruption plague American youth.
Which of the following is false about the long-lasting negative effects of child poverty?
a. Educational achievement scores have closed between children in affluent and low
income families
b. Family wealth is in increasingly important determinant of high school graduation and
college attendance
c. Mental and physical health is impaired due to poverty
d. Social behavior differs because of socio-economic status
A
According to the text, U.S. children and adolescents experience various health and
mortality problems. Which of the following statements is false?
a. Less than 20% of adolescents meet current physical activity recommendations of 1
hour of physical activity a day
b. About 10% of youth do not have health care coverage
c. The percent of children born at low birth weight has increased
d. More police officers are killed by firearms than preschoolers
D
Educational problems are more likely to affect minority kids. According to the Children's
Defense Fund, which of the following statements are false about African-American
children?
a. Half as likely to be placed in a gifted and talented class
b. More than likely to be held back or retained in school
,c. Suspended at the same rate as white students
d. More than four times as likely to be expelled from school
C
Adults 25 years of age and older with less than a high school diploma earn ______
percent less than those who have earned a high school diploma.
30
Cyberbullying is the willful and repeated harm inflicted through the medium of electronic
text. According to the text, which of the following statements is false with regard to this
phenomenon?
a. Adolescent girls are significantly more likely to experience cyberbullying
b. Boys are more likely to spread rumors online
c. A cyberbully's online power may stem from net proficiency
d. Research indicates that one out of every five kids has been cyberbullied
B
13. The Children's Defense Fund has identified all but which of the following as leading
kids to prison?
a. Lack of access to health and mental health care
b. Failing schools and lack of quality education
c. Community institutions that receive support from various sources
d. Racial and economic disparities in child- and youth-serving systems
C
14. The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) monitors health-risk behaviors among
youth and young adults. Which of the following is true about their health-risk behaviors?
Less than 20% of students had carried a weapon in the past 30 days
15. There is a potential for risky behavior among youth in all facets of American life. The
social,
economic, and political circumstances that increase adolescent risk taking include all
but which of the following?
a. Lack of legitimate opportunity
b. Racial, class, age, and ethnicity equalities
c. The "cult of individualism"
d. The uncertainty of contemporary social life
B
According to the text, youths who have been arrested four or more times and
perpetuate a striking majority of serious criminal acts are known as the:
"chronic juvenile offenders"
A family style wherein the father is the final authority on all family matters and exercises
complete control over his wife and children is:
paternalistic
Which of the following statements about children in the Middle Ages is false?
a. Children of all classes were subjected to stringent rules and regulations.
b. Girls were educated at home and married in their early teens.
c. Children were expected to undertake responsibilities early in their lives.
d. The parent-child relationship was particularly close and loving.
D
, Voltaire's, Rousseau's, and Locke's vision produced a period known as the
_____________________, which stressed a humanistic view of life, freedom, family,
reason, and law.
Enlightenment
These allowed for the appointment of overseers to place destitute or neglected children
as servants in the homes of the affluent, where they were trained in agricultural, trade,
or domestic services.
Poor Laws
Under the _______________ movement, children were placed in the care of adults who
trained them in specific skills.
apprenticeship
During the Middle Ages in Great Britain, the chancery courts were established to do all
of the following except:
a. protect property rights and seek equitable solutions to disputes and conflicts
b. operate on the proposition that children were under the protective control of the king
c. safeguard orphans' property and inheritance rights and appoint a guardian to protect
them until they reached the age of majority
d. have jurisdiction over children charged with criminal conduct
D
Nineteenth-century reformers, known as ________________, 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.
child savers
Which of the following best describes the parens patriae philosophy of the juvenile court
?
best interests of the child
Several events led to reforms and nourished the eventual development of the juvenile
justice system, which of the following is not one of those events?
a. Urbanization
b. The child-saving movement
c. Institutions for the care of delinquent and neglected children, including houses of
refuge
d. Passage of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act
D
Which of the following statements best describes the child savers?
They lobbied for a separate legal status for children.
Which of the following is not among the first juvenile institutions and organizations?
a. Children's Aid Society
b. Orphan trains
c. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
d. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
D
The legislation passed to form the first juvenile court was:
Illinois Juvenile Court Act
According to the text, what established juvenile delinquency as a legal concept?
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