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Youth Crime Part 2: American Juvenile Superpredators Flashcards

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Adolescent limited offenders

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antisocial behaviour only during adolescence

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Life-Course Persistent Offenders

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antisocial behaviour in childhood and continues through to adult hood

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Age-Crime Curve

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  • age increases, crime decreases
  • decreases after 25 years of age
  • non-white males show more crime than non-white males
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Juvenile Superpredators

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remorseless, brutal, impulsive adolescents who do not fear the stigma of arrests, the pains of imprisonments, pangs of conscience

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