Juvenile Delinquency Pre-Test
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Course Introduction
Juvenile Delinquency explores the nature, extent, and causes of delinquent behavior among youth. This course examines the social, psychological, and environmental factors contributing to juvenile offending, as well as the processes by which young people are labeled as delinquents. Students will study criminological theories, the role of families, peers, schools, and communities, and the responses of the juvenile justice system. The course also addresses prevention strategies, intervention programs, and public policy initiatives aimed at reducing delinquency and promoting positive youth development.
Recommended Textbook 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) Provide two different scenarios and explain the circumstances where the actions could be perceived as violent behavior versus nonviolent behavior.Explain what contributes to the difference in the violent versus nonviolent perception of the scenario.
Answer: Scenario 1: An individual getting hit by a car
-Is the act unintentional by the driver or intentional?
-Was the driver following all traffic laws versus speeding or driving while distracted/under the influence?
-Was the driver a "model citizen" or someone with a criminal history? Scenario 2: An individual shoots another
-What is the circumstance? Self-defense? During the commission of a crime? Accidental?
-Is the act unintentional or intentional?
-Was the shooter acting carelessly? Purposefully?
-Was the shooter a "model citizen" or someone with a criminal history?
-Was the victim a criminal?
Q2) U.S.murder rates are about three times higher than all other countries.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Explaining Violence
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Q1) Some biologists/criminologists suggest that violence can be linked with ______.
A) mesomorphic
B) endomorphic
C) brain injuries from combat or a violent experience
D) metamorphic
Answer: C
Q2) 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
Q3) According to the frustration-aggression hypothesis,which of the following factors increases the likelihood of a violent reaction?
A) the frustration was unintentionally caused
B) the hindrance was perceived as being fair
C) the presence of aggressive stimuli such as aggressive music
D) the presence of an audience
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Aiding and Abetting Violence
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Q1) In October 1919,the National Prohibition Act,also known as the Volstead Act,gave federal agencies the power to enforce the Sixteenth Amendment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The availability of ______ increases the likelihood that a violent interaction will result in death.
A) guns
B) cannons
C) knives
D) machetes
Answer: A
Q3) In the wake of urban rioting and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr.and Robert Kennedy,Congress once again turned its attention to gun control by passing the Gun Control Act of 1968.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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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) There are three broad types of multicide: mass murder,spree murder,and ______.
A) serial murder
B) heinous murder
C) felony murder
D) terrorism
Q3) Why was the BTK killer classified as a serial murderer? Discuss the characteristics that surround Dennis Rader and the crimes he committed.
Q4) Generally,involuntary manslaughter makes up the majority of nonlethal violent crime victimizations.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the characteristics of serial murderers.
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Chapter 5: Violence in the Home
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Q1) In what year did the CDC conduct the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS)?
A) 1975
B) 1995
C) 2010
D) 2020
Q2) Stalking first entered our society's consciousness after the murder of Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989.Rebecca was a 21-year-old actress starring in a popular sitcom,My Sister Sam.
A)True
B)False
Q3) For current estimates of _____,there are two large nationally representative surveys we can use: the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)and the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS)conducted by the CDC.
A) FBI
B) crime
C) heinous crime
D) IPV
Q4) Discuss the risk factors associated with physical child abuse.
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Chapter 6: Rape and Sexual Assault
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Q1) In section 1631 of the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act,Congress mandated the ______ to provide an accounting of sexual assault in the military along with an overview of what DOD was doing to prevent it and ameliorate the consequences for victims.
A) Coast Guard
B) U.S. Armed Services Committee
C) Department of Defense
D) FBI
Q2) Discuss and analyze rape in the U.S.military.
Q3) Discuss the demographic factors related to victimization from the NISVS.
Q4) Although similar to crime codes in state statutes,members of the U.S.military are prosecuted under criminal violations called the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).The military also has its own courts,which are called ______.
A) formal file of charges
B) court hearing
C) military service hearings
D) courts-martial
Q5) Discuss and explain the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.
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Chapter 7: Stranger Danger and Violence in the Streets
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Q1) A hate crime,also known as a ______,is a criminal offense committed against a person,property,or society that is motivated,in whole or in part,by the offender' s bias against a race,religion,disability,sexual orientation,or ethnicity/national origin.
A) intimate
B) violent
C) bias crime
D) emotional
Q2) The first major hate crime legislation passed at the federal level was called the Hate Crime Statistics Act of ______.
A)1975
B) 1950
C) 1990
D) none of the above
Q3) Secondary homicides involve?
A) intimate friends
B) acquaintances
C) libraries
D) strangers
Q4) Discuss the characteristics of female robbery offenders.
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Chapter 8: Crowd Violence
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Q1) During slavery,lynchings were not used against the slaves because ______.
A) Lynchings hadn't been invented yet.
B) Slavery was legal and had the protection of the law.
C) The slaves would rebel.
D) Police punished lynchers.
Q2) Discuss three of the eight typologies of crowds and mobs.
Q3) Many riots throughout history have mostly been responses to ______.
A) current social conditions
B) prison release
C) injustice and oppression
D) conformity
Q4) It is a mistake to see lynchings as spontaneous eruptions of ______,although they were often portrayed as such-especially by many Southern newspapers.Instead,we must recognize that lynching often served some very real social,political,and economic goals.
A) hand selected individuals
B) communal violence
C) controlled violence
D) none of the above
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Chapter 9: Terrorism
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Q1) We tend to be more ______ of things that aren't likely to happen and surprisingly ______ about dangers that are more likely to occur.
A) fearful, unconcerned
B) unconcerned, fearful
C) interested, intrigued
D) understanding, empathetic
Q2) Terrorism is difficult to define because ______.
A) It encompasses many different types of behavior.
B) It is continuously evolving.
C) It depends in part on your point of view.
D) all of the above
Q3) ______,as the name implies,refers to terrorism committed to achieve some illicit goal or to protect an illegal operation.
A) criminal terrorism
B) pathological terrorism
C) political terrorism
D) regime terrorism
Q4) Discuss the differences between terrorism and guerrilla warfare.
Q5) Discuss the difference between hard targets and soft targets.
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Chapter 10: Genocide
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Q1) During the Armenian genocide,the first victims were ______.
A) the intelligentsia and leaders
B) students
C) international tourists
D) women and children
E) none of the above
Q2) In ______,the Fourth International Russell Tribunal of 1979 found that the government was perpetrating genocide against the indigenous peoples of the Amazon headwaters.The violence included navy riverboats machine-gunning the banks of the rivers and massacres perpetrated by government forces and private citizens alike.
A) Colombia
B) Sudan
C) Brazil
D) none of the above
Q3) It is sometimes hard to distinguish between genocide and related types of crimes,such as human rights violations and other war crimes.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Toward Violence Prevention
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Q1) Prevention methods are aimed at intervening after something has already occurred or is at a high risk of occurring.
A)True
B)False
Q2) PTSD is not only be found in war veterans.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Violence can happen ______.
A) in prisons
B) in a home
C) in the workplace
D) within government agencies
E) all of the above
Q4) ______ generally focuses law enforcement efforts on proactively solving "problems" related to crime rather than reactively responding to calls for service after a crime has already occurred.
A) foreward thinking policing
B) problem-solving or problem-oriented policing
C) reactive policing
D) none of the above
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