Exam 4: Delinquency Across the Life Span

Lower-class girls are more likely to have to deal with unplanned early _______________ than middle- and upper-class girls.

The passage of the Juvenile and Delinquency Prevention Act was designed to:

Laub and Sampson found that adult crime:

What are the differences between female and male careers in crime.

Sexually mature girls who live in high-risk neighborhoods are partially protected from violence due to looking older than they are.

Research shows that for formerly delinquent girls, marriage can help them desist from crime, but it depends on the quality of the marriage.

How did Sampson and Laub attempt to explain the continuity of delinquency into adult criminality?

Official data show that in a juvenile facility boys are more apt to be sexually victimized by staff than are girls but that girls are more apt to be sexually victimized by their peers.

The profile of at-risk adolescent females includes early childhood victimization but not substance misuse.

Terrie E. Moffitt reported with references to the Dunedin Longitudinal Study findings that male youths often develop antisocial behavior due to peer group influence.

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

The term used with reference to the treatment of Black girls who get into trouble as older than they are is _____________.

Because of their high rate of running away from home and discrimination, LBTQ youth are found disproportionately incarcerated in juvenile facilities.

"A modification, reshaping, or transition from one state, condition, or phase to another" is defined as a:

Laub and Sampson found that adult crime is not connected to childhood behavior.

Terrie E. Moffitt reported with references to the Dunedin Longitudinal Study findings that male youths develop antisocial behavior due to:

Clausen defined "planful __________" as including self-confidence.