Exam 4: Data on Delinquency and Juvenile Justice

The following questions are on Reading 4.2: Sickmund and Puzzanchera (2014). -The Monitoring the Future survey in 2010 showed that only 20% of high school seniors had used illicit drugs.

The following questions are on Reading 4.2: Sickmund and Puzzanchera (2014). -The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has multiple data collection programs to gather information about juvenile offenders held in residential facilities.

The National Crime Victimization Survey is an inaccurate measure of juvenile delinquency in part because:

Which of the following is not a strength of victimization surveys?

The following questions are on Reading 4.1: Hockenberry and Puzzanchera (2017). -It is relatively easy to compile national juvenile court statistics, given that all juvenile court jurisdictions use the same categories when coding juvenile court data.

What can UCR arrest data tell us?

The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is an example of what kind of data?

Both UCR and NCVS data are better measures of minor offending than of serious crime and delinquency.

Juvenile Court Statistics report data regarding:

Which of the following is not a Part I crime reported by the Uniform Crime Report (UCR)?

Most victims report crimes they have experienced to the police.

Self-report surveys of offending reveal much higher rates of offending than do UCR data.

The following questions are on Reading 4.1: Hockenberry and Puzzanchera (2017). -The National Juvenile Court Data Archive makes _____________-level data available to researchers and policymakers.

_______________ surveys gather information from the same individuals at multiple points in time, and are therefore well suited to address questions about changes in delinquent involvement over the life course.

The UCR is gathered by which agency?

One of the problems with official data, such as the UCR, is that:

The following questions are on Reading 4.2: Sickmund and Puzzanchera (2014). -Which of the following statements is true regarding trends in victimization rates between 1994 and 2010?

"Official" data are gathered by:

The following questions are on Reading 4.1: Hockenberry and Puzzanchera (2017). -Juvenile Court Statistics provides national estimates of both delinquency cases and petitioned status offense cases.

Which of the following is a strength of UCR data?