Exam 4: Delinquency Across the Life Span

Status offenses are offenses that would be crimes for which adults could be arrested.

According to Moffitt, children can begin their lifelong path to delinquency and crime during ________________.

For Black girls, adultification is seen in treatment by authorities of these girls as if they are older than their actual age.

Law-violating females are more likely than males to become:

Adjudication is a term used in juvenile justice that takes place after a petition is filed requiring the juvenile to be tried before a judge in juvenile court.

According to the pathways model for female offenders is closely associated with:

Delinquent girls often suffer from various forms of victimization at home related to:

Girls are often victims of various forms of victimization at home related to substance misuse.

Match the term with the appropriate definition. -Moffitt

Girls are often victims of various forms of victimization at home related to _________misuse.

An event in a youth's life that causes him or her to change course is called a ____________.

Staff who work with juveniles often have the perception that female offenders are more ___________ than males.

According to the text, for low-offending girls, detention is especially harmful.

Clausen defined "planful competence" as including:

The profile of at-risk adolescent females includes:

According to Moffitt's report on the Dunedin Longitudinal data, females have a similar pattern to males in delinquency when alcohol and drugs are involved.

Match the term with the appropriate definition. -Gluecks

Girls are drawn to gangs because of:

Match the term with the appropriate definition. -Desistance

A turning point may be defined as "a modification, reshaping, or transition from one state, condition, or phase to another."