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
