Exam 12: Delinquency Prevention: Social and Developmental Perspectives

_____ focused on the effects of an early preventive intervention program for 6-year-old boys from poor neighborhoods who were aggressive and hyperactive.

Discuss what works, what doesn't work, and what is promising in regard to school-based delinquency prevention programs.

According to one study, the cost to society of a single murder is as high as $10 million.

Delinquency prevention programs always involve the juvenile justice system.

Discuss Positive Action Through Holistic Education (PATHE). Do you think that schools should be responsible for providing delinquency prevention programs? Explain.

A group of subjects that receives a prevention program is called the ____.

A group of subjects that does not receive a prevention program is called the ____.

The goal of _______ initiatives, such as Boston's Mid-City Program, was to meet youths on their own turf.

Developmental prevention refers to interventions, especially those targeting _____ designed to prevent the growth of criminal potential in individuals.

Discuss the research regarding programs aimed at improving parenting skills.

Delinquency prevention programs face a number of obstacles. Identify and discuss these obstacles. Which of the obstacles do you believe to be the most problematic? Explain.

One report found that by age 5, children who experienced the enriched daycare offered by Head Start averaged a 10-point gain on their IQ scores.

Elements in the randomized experimental design are the experimental group and the ____.

Violence prevention curriculum for adolescents is one type of school-based prevention program.  What does the curriculum hope to achieve?

Explain the developmental perspective to classify delinquency prevention activities.

Experimentation with comprehensive community-based delinquency prevention began with the ______.

______ dispatched trained social workers to seek out and meet with youth gangs three to four times a week on the gang's own turf.

Delinquency prevention programs directly help the adolescent, but other benefits, such as job skill acquisition and stronger family ties, are also benefits created by these programs.

A(n) _____ factor would decrease the likelihood of delinquency in the future.

Including violence prevention curricula as part of health education classes is one type of school-based prevention program that has received much attention in recent years in the United States.