CRJS 400 - Current Issues in Juvenile Justice Ch. 3 Quiz
The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth is sponsored by the ______.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
The ______ began publishing Juvenile Court Statistics reports in 1926.
Children's Bureau
______ is an example of a status offense.
Curfew violation
______ refers to the cause, or set of causes, for a certain outcome.
Etiology
The ______ has amassed almost nine decades worth of U.S. crime data.
Summary Reporting System
The traditional ______ is the only program that attempts to collect census data on all offenses known to law enforcement and persons arrested.
Summary Reporting System
Cross-sectional data are collected from a group ______.
at a single point in time
In 2013, girls made up approximately ______ of the delinquency cases handled by the juvenile courts.
one-fourth
A longitudinal survey is conducted ______.
over an extended period of time
Which of the following is an example of a victimless crime?
prostitution
Which of the following offense types would the NIBRS categorize in Group A?
shoplifting
The term ______ was used in the 1996 presidential campaign to describe a generation of children that was perceived to be more violent and dangerous than in previous generations.
super-predator
The Monitoring the Future (MTF) project ______.
surveys both middle and high school students
One of the most significant limitations of early self-report surveys has been ______.
their focus on minor delinquency and status offenses
Which of the following is a reason the National Crime Victimization Survey was created?
to provide uniform measures of selected types of crimes
Juvenile justice policy is now shifting away from a ______ approach.
tough on crime
The National Juvenile Court Data Archive was established by the ______.
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention