Mid-Term

Question 1

Upheld the state of New Yorks preventive detention statue for juvniles

Answer 1

Schell v. Martin

Question 2

On a cultural level, youths are encourgaed to join gangs during periods of social, ecomic and cultural turmoil. On an individual level, gang membership has appleal to adolescents who are alienated form the mainstream of society.

Answer 2

Anomie/ Alienation View

Question 3

In 1824, this “home away from home” was the first insitituion in the US designed to house poor, destitue and vagrant youth, who were deemed by authoires to be on the path towards delinquency

Answer 3

The New york House of Refuge, 1824

Question 4

GREAT is an acronym for this

Answer 4

Gang 
Resistance
Education
And 
Training

Question 5

This framed German American developmentsl psychologist believed that juvniles struggly between Ego Identity and Role Diffusion

Answer 5

Erik Erickson

Question 6

Considered a true alternative to incarceration for juvniles “jIPS” stands for this

Answer 6

Juvnile Intensive Probation

Supervison

Question 7

This Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Youth closed that states juvnile insititions in 1972 and placed the youths in communtiy programs with the help of UMASS students

Answer 7

Jereome Miller

Question 8

The belief that gender differnces in delinquency rates can be explained by the fact that female criminaltiy is cometimes overlooked of firgiven by mals working in the justice systems

Answer 8

Chivarly Hypothesis

Question 9

Ended life sentences without the possibiliy of parole for juvniles convicted in non-homocide

Answer 9

Graham v. Florida

Question 10

Ended the pratuce of the death penatly for juvniles in the united states

Answer 10

Roper v. SImmons

Question 11

Youth gangs form due to destructive socialculturals forces in disorganized areas: Its a naturla response for those whose life goals cannot be achieved through legitmate means

Answer 11

Social disorgazntion Social Cultural View

Question 12

Youth with antisocial personaly defect are the most liekily group to gangs. Personal probloems and deflicts, such as low self-esteem. poor impluse control, and limited life skills

Answer 12

The Psychological View

Question 13

These are the 4 dcategoires of famioly dysfunction that tend to promote delinquency behavior

Answer 13

1. Spousal Conflict/Breakup
2. Interpersonal Conflict
3. Ineffective/ Incomptent parents
4. Deviant Parents

Question 14

This is the sentecing of the juvnile jsutice process

Answer 14

DIsposition

Question 15

There is no one single source or cuase of crime and delinquency; they are tooted in a deverse set of causl
factors. The dabate usally come down to this

Answer 15

Nature v Nurture

Question 16

He is consisdered the “Father of Classical School of Crimionlogly

Answer 16

Cesar Beccaria

Question 17

Between 1854 to 1929, these were used by the Childrens Aid Societ to move approximatley 200,000 children from cities like New York and Boston to the American West in order to work on farms

Answer 17

Orphan Trains

Question 18

A conidition that occurs when parents have such large families that their resources, such as time and money are spread too thin causing lack of familail support

Answer 18

Reasouce Dilution

Question 19

This Act establised the nations first independt juvnile court

Answer 19

Illions Juvnile Court act of 1899

Question 20

Gang membership and this drug are believed to have the spike in juvnile and violent crieme from the late 1980s through the mid 1990s

Answer 20

Crack Cocaine

Question 21

Suggests that gangs appeal to teens who are longing for the tribal sources that sustained their ancestors, with gang rituals that help the child bridge the gap between childhood and adulthood

Answer 21

Anthropoloical View

Question 22

The term used to descirbe the age at which youths begin their delinquenct carrers; an early start is believed to be linked with chronic offending pattersis

Answer 22

Age of onset

Question 23

School Administors need the lesser requirement of “resonable susppicion to conduct searches in schools

Answer 23

TLO vs NJ

Question 24

This case gave juvniles the same due process right as afforded to adults in criminal proccedings

Answer 24

Re Gault 1967

Question 25

This docment \/rpcess transfers the legal jursidation over the most serious juvnile offenders form juvnile court to the adult court for criminal prosection

Answer 25

Waiver