Exam 12: Delinquency Prevention: Social and Developmental Perspectives

Started by Shaw and McKay, the _____ was one of the earliest juvenile delinquency prevention programs.

The _______teaches teachers and parents of students in first through sixth grade to reward appropriate behavior and to consistently provide negative consequences for undesirable behavior.

Explain the public heath approach to delinquency prevention.

Discuss the national estimate of costs related to juvenile violence.

The only national estimate of the costs of juvenile delinquency focuses on _____.

An evaluation of the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study found that the control group committed more crime than those in the experimental group.

The text speaks to "the many faces of delinquency prevention." Explain what is meant by this turn of phrase.

Wilderness programs, probation, and secure confinement are examples of delinquency control programs.

______ is the best-known and largest job training program in the United States.

_____ programs are designed to assist students whose parent(s) work, even though school has been dismissed.

The _____ program was set up to help improve the lives of young people at high risk for delinquency, gang involvement, substance abuse, and other problem behaviors.

The Nurse-Family Partnership is the best-known ______ program.

________ is a Canadian program implemented in a public housing development in Ottawa that recruits low-income young people to participate in after-school activities.

Juvenile delinquency and the juvenile justice system have little relationship to each other.

Mentoring has been shown to reduce delinquency and aggression.

Any justice program or policy designed to prevent the occurrence of a future delinquent act is called delinquency prevention.

In the _____, a major focus on delinquency prevention programs was to reach out to youth who were unlikely to use community centers.

The Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC) targeted first-time mothers-to-be to receive home visits from nurses during their pregnancy.

Daycare serves to provide the child with a number of benefits, including social interaction with other children.