Juvenile Delinquency Final
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Course Introduction
This course offers an in-depth examination of juvenile delinquency, exploring the patterns, causes, and consequences of youth offending. Students will analyze various theoretical perspectives on delinquency, including sociological, psychological, and environmental factors. The course also covers the history and evolution of the juvenile justice system, current methods of intervention and prevention, and the roles of family, peers, schools, and community resources. Attention is given to contemporary issues such as gang involvement, substance abuse, and the impact of social policies on young people. Through case studies and research, students gain a comprehensive understanding of the challenges in addressing juvenile delinquency and the approaches used to rehabilitate and support at-risk youth.
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Criminal Violence Patterns Causes and Prevention 3rd Edition by Marc Riedel
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Chapter 1: As American as Apple Pie
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Q1) All violence is connected by a web of actions and behaviors,ideas,perceptions,and justifications.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The study done by Leslie Kennedy and David Forde illustrates that Canadians do not judge acts of violence as selectively as Americans.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Iadicola and Shupe define violence as "Any action or structural arrangement that results in physical or nonphysical harm to one or more persons."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Instrumental violence is motivated by emotions such as rage and jealousy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Explaining Violence
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Q1) Robert Merton's theory is often referred to as the theory of differential ______.
A) opportunity
B) ambition
C) poverty
D) association
Answer: A
Q2) Genetically,humans are most closely related to ______.
A) buffalo
B) pigs
C) monkeys
D) chimpanzees
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following tends to have the highest levels of testosterone?
A) high level violent inmates
B) high level nonviolent inmates
C) winning athletes
D) losing athletes
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Aiding and Abetting Violence
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Q1) A substance that has been linked to violent behavior is phencyclidine,otherwise known as PCP,angel dust,ozone,whack,or rocket fuel.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Currently ______ states allow citizens to concealed firearms if state requirements are met.
A) 35
B) 20
C) 50
D) 13
Answer: C
Q3) The production of handguns has increasingly moved away from revolvers to ______,which can fire more rounds and that now account for 80% of all handguns produced.
A) knives
B) semiautomatic weapons
C) assault tanks
D) rifles
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Assault and Murder: A Continuum of Violence
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Q1) The final justification for capital punishment is ______ and has nothing to do with public safety-it is a moral justification.
A) incapacitation
B) general deterrence
C) retribution
D) deliberation
Q2) ______ are criminal homicides in which the degree of responsibility is considered much less than murder,not only because premeditation and deliberation are absent but also because the offender did not act with malice.
A) justifiable murder
B) felony murder
C) manslaughters
D) first degree murder
Q3) Other factors that frequently appear in the histories of serial killers include what has been termed the homicidal triad: bed-wetting past an appropriate age,cruelty to animals,and fire setting.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the characteristics of serial murderers.
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Chapter 5: Violence in the Home
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Q1) ______ refers to the inequity of power held by males over females.The term comes from the Greek word for patriarch or "father as ruler."
A) masculinity
B) cycle of violence
C) violent criminal
D) patriarchy
Q2) Discuss elder abuse and the United States and why these crimes go unreported to law enforcement authorities.
Q3) ______ generally means that victims' rights and wishes are factored into the process of administering justice.
A) victimless crimes
B) victim empowerment
C) victim advocate
D) victim's rights
Q4) Discuss the risk factors associated with physical child abuse.
Q5) Today,35 states offer victims of IPV some form of civil protection or temporary restraining order.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Rape and Sexual Assault
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Q1) ______,an assistant football coach at Penn State,was convicted in June of 2012 of sexually assaulting 10 boys,all of whom were part of his local charity dedicated to mentoring young boys from disadvantaged homes,and he will likely spend the rest of his life in prison.
A) Dennis Hastert
B) Altoona-Johnstown Diocese in Pennsylvania
C) O. J. Simpson
D) Jerry Sandusky
Q2) Discuss and analyze rape in the U.S.military.
Q3) One study of sexual assault in prison conducted by Cindy Struckman-Johnson and her colleagues in Nebraska concluded that ______% of male inmates had been pressured or forced to have sexual contact against their will while incarcerated.
A) 18
B) 100
C) 50
D) 22
Q4) Discuss and explain the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.
Q5) Discuss the demographic factors related to victimization from the NISVS.
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Chapter 7: Stranger Danger and Violence in the Streets
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Q1) Discuss Wright and Decker' s "code of the streets" in relation to the Elijah Anderson definition.
Q2) Discuss the characteristics of female robbery offenders.
Q3) Discuss the trends related to workplace violence in America.
Q4) All of us feel the need to be part of a community.Internet chat rooms facilitate this formation of community for their participants.They also provide a type of reinforcement for extremist ideas that would not be tolerated in the larger society,which is known as ______.
A) privacy
B) persuasion
C) anonymity
D) Support
Q5) A ______,in which an offender(s)breaks into a residence and steals a homeowner' s belongings,is a property crime because there is no force or threat of force to a person.
A) arson
B) robbery
C) burglary
D) theft
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Chapter 8: Crowd Violence
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Q1) ______,refers to groups that engage in violence in an effort to control the government if it strays from an acceptable course of action and policy.
A) innate control vigilantism
B) crime-control vigilantism
C) social group-control vigilantism
D) regime-control vigilantism
Q2) Mob violence-as exemplified by lynchings,vigilantes,and riots-has a short history in this country.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which is the most common type of riot in this country?
A) race
B) prison
C) sports
D) political
Q4) Vigilantism can be defined as an organized internal legal movement in which the participants take the law into their own hands.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Terrorism
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Q1) Terrorism is a continuously evolving phenomenon.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which President stated these words: "is a different war from any our nation has ever faced,a war on many fronts,against terrorists who operate in more than 60 different countries.And this is a war that must be fought not only overseas but also here at home."
A) President Carter
B) President Bush
C) President Clinton
D) none of the above
Q3) Some Muslims do not feel that Al Qaeda is a terrorist organization or that Osama bin Laden was a terrorist.Rather,they perceive them as heroes fighting against what they see as a powerful and unjust enemy: the United States and other Western nations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the differences between terrorism and guerrilla warfare.
Q5) Discuss the difference between hard targets and soft targets.
Q6) What the reasons for the difficulty in defining the term terrorism?
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Chapter 10: Genocide
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Q1) ______ genocides involve situations in which a government uses genocide as a weapon against rivals for political power.
A) developmental
B) rationale
C) despotic
D) deological
Q2) Irving Louis Horowitz,a scholar of genocide,identified four kinds of societies in terms of their ability or willingness to perpetrate genocide.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The first concentration camp to be opened by the Nazis was ______.
A) Auschwitz
B) Sobibor
C) Dachau
D) Treblinka
Q4) Discuss genocide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Provide examples to support your work.
Q5) Why does genocide happen? What are some of the reasons for this type of violence?
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Chapter 11: Toward Violence Prevention
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Q1) What are the social costs of violence within a society?
Q2) Prevention methods are aimed at intervening after something has already occurred or is at a high risk of occurring.
A)True
B)False
Q3) It is possible to cure violence.
A)True
B)False
Q4) PTSD is not only be found in war veterans.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The U.S.Department of Justice provides information on the programs that have been evaluated using RCTs and proven to be effective in reducing various types of violence and aggression on a website called CrimeSolutions.gov.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Provide three specific examples of criminal justices responses to violence in the United States.
Q7) Discuss the findings of the Minneapolis domestic violence experiment.
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