Exam 2: Chapter 2-3

Question 1

Be able to define and provide an example for the following term: status offense

Answer 1

permit the arrest of youth for a wide range of behaviors that violate parental authority.
Ex. running away from home

Question 2

Be able to define and provide an example for the following term: androcentric bias

Answer 2

Androcentric bias occurs when one makes the assumption that the male view is the norm for all people.

Question 3

What is the difference between a status offense and a criminal violation?

Answer 3

A status offense is prohibited act that is only illegal to juveniles or underage kids.

A criminal violation can be non-violent and violent, it is a mandatory court appearance.

Question 4

Compared to boys, are girls more likely to commit a status offense? How do status offenses play a major role in girls’ delinquency?

Answer 4

-Status offenses account for 15% of arrests for girls, and larceny accounts for 25%. Comparatively, status offenses account for only 9% of boys arrest while larceny accounts for 13%.

• Larceny and status offenses continue to play more significant role in girls delinquency than boys.
• Girls are “arrested for status offenses at a higher rate than boys

-Girls are subjected to the double standard of gender, class, and race. Girls are held to a higher standard of being lady like and if they break that standard there are consequences. While boys are subjected to the notion of “boys will be boys”. They do commit the same crimes, but their sentencing is much less.

Question 5

Chesney-Lind and Pasko demonstrate that, within the past ten years, girls’ rates of violence have gone down.
However, rates of “other assaults” and robbery arrests have gone up slightly.

How do they explain these trends in delinquent behavior?

Answer 5

The relabeling of crime allows for more young girls to be caught in the net of crime.

Question 6

Be able to define and provide an example for the following term: emancipation hypothesis

Answer 6

Due to women having more freedoms, they also have an increase in crime due to more opportunities. White collar crime, no longer just secretaries.

Question 7

Be able to define and provide an example for the following term: childsavers

Answer 7

• The child-saving movement emerged in the United States during the nineteenth century and influenced the development of the juvenile justice system.
• Child savers stressed the value of redemption and prevention through early identification of deviance and intervention in the form of education and training

Question 8

Be able to define and provide an example for the following term: other assaults

Answer 8

usually used in juvenile cases.

EX: Girls arrested for pushing their parent or guardian out of the way of the door.