SOC 4540 Unit I Quiz

Worse now than it ever has been

Conceptions of delinquency

Rehabilitation

Focus of Juvenile Court

Paying debts

Focus of adult court

Much more formal

Formality of adult court

Less formal

Formality of juvenile court

Running away from home, truancy, incorrigibility, alcohol use, missed curfew

Status offenses

On the decline, and are actually rare. Far more likely to experience violence outside of school than in it

Trends in school violence

Decline of crack use, systemic violence, improvements in policing, increased use of prevention and rehab, and higher rates of juveniles incarcerated

Why is juvenile crime declining?

Receive a sentence

sentencing in adult court

Receive a disposition

sentencing in juvenile court

Paying debts

Goals of adult institutions

Rehabilitation

Goals of juvenile institutions

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How to select a data source based upon a research question

National Youth Survey

Longitudinal survey that follows 1700 juveniles from 1977 and provides a more representative sample

Sources of official data

Police, Courts, UCR

Monitoring the Future

an annual survey of a nationwide sample of American 8th, 10th, and 12th graders, mainly known for its data on adolescent substance use

Few long term surveys, underestimation of serious delinquency, focuses on minor delinquency and uses vague response categories, over-report of delinquency, undersampling of the most serious delinquents

disadvantages of self-report surveys