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Status offenses |
illegal behavior that only persons with certain characteristics or status can commit (usually juveniles running away from home, violating curfew) |
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Child delinquent |
children between the ages of 7 and 12 who have committed or are accused of committing or are accused of committing a criminal act
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Life course persistent |
(lip offenders) a term introduced by Terrie Moffit to represent offenders who demonstrate a life-long pattern of antisocial behavior and who are resistant to treatment or rehabilitation. |
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Adolescent limited |
(AL OFFENDER) individual who usually demonstrates delinquent or antisocial behavior only during his or her teen years and then stops offending during his or her young adult years |
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Primary prevention |
an intervention program designed to prevent behavior or disorders before any signs of the behavioral pattern develops. (Universal prevention) |
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Secondary prevention |
intervention program designed for individuals who demonstrate early signs or indications or behavioral problems or antisocial behavior ( selective prevention) |
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Tertiary prevention |
(treatment) intervention strategy designed to reduce or eliminate behavioral problems for antisocial behavior that is fully developed in individuals (treatment or counseling of convicted felons) |
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Primary psychopathy |
Robert Hare's classification of the "true" psychopath. Individual who demonstrates those psychological and behavioral features that represent psychopathy |
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Dyssocial psychopath |
individual with psychopathic characteristics who is antisocial because of social learning and does not possess the features of the primary psychopath |
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Secondary psychopath |
individual with psychopathic characteristics but who commits antisocial acts because of severe emotional problems or inner conflicts |
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Developmental disability |
status that's is attributed to a cognitive or physical impairment |
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Insanity defense |
law designed to make it more difficult for defendants using the insanity defense in federal courts to be acquitted |
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Delusional disorders |
(paranoid) mental disorder characterized by a system of false beliefs |
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Incompetent to stand trial |
judicial determination that a defendant lacks sufficient lacks sufficient ability to understand the legal process against him or her and/ or to assist a lawyer in the preparation of a defense. |
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Not guilty by reason of insanity |
legal determination that a defendant was so mentally disordered at the time of the crime that he or she cannot be held criminally responsible for his or her actions |
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Negligent manslaughter |
unlawful killing of another through reckless or negligent behavior, without intention to kill |
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Weapons effect |
suggestion that the mere presence of a weapon leads a witness or victim to concentrate on the weapon itself rather than other features of the crime |
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Munchausen by proxy |
unusual form of child abuse in which the parent consistently bring the child for medical attention with symptoms falsified or directly induced by the parents |
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Filicide |
killing of ones child older than one year |
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Neonaticide |
killing of s newborn under 48 hrs |
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dynamic cascade model |
statistical and theoretical model that sees the many risk factors in a youths early development as affecting subsequent factors, having a snowballing effects that leads to use them effectively in the real world |
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Multiassaultive families |
nuclear family characterized by multiple incidents of violence involving more than one perpetrator |
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Intimate partner violence crimes |
committed against persons by their current or former spouses, boyfriends, or girlfriends |
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DSM |
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders |
