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26 Cards in this Set
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Ego Identity
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When a perosn develops a firm sense of who he is and wha he stand for
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Role Diffusion
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When a youths spread themselves too thin, experience personal uncertainty and place themselves at the mercy of the leaders who promise to give them a sence of identily they cannot develop for themselves
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At risk youth
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Young people who are extremely vulnerable to the negative consequences of school failure sub abuse nd early sexuality
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How many adolencent poverty
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12 millions
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what is the def of delinquency
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is one who fails to do that which is required by law or by duty when such failure is minor in nature.
The term is often used to refer to a juvenile who commits a minor criminal act |
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paternalistic family
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A family style wherein the father is the final authoriyt on all family matter and exercies control his wife and daughter
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Aging out process
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The tendency for youths to reduce the frequency of theit offending behavior as they age
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Poor laws
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english statues that allowed the courts to appoint overseers over destitute and neglected children allowing placement of these children as servants in homes of the affuent
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Parents patriae
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Power of the state to act behalf of the child and provide care and protection equialent to that of a parents
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Chanceny courts
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Court proceedings created in 15th century england to oversee the lives of highborn minors w could not cre for themselves who were orphaned or otherwise
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Best intersts of the children
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viewpoint that encourages the state take control of wayward children and provide care custody and treatment to remedy d behavior
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Waiver
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Transferring legal jurisdiction over the most serious and experience juvies offender to the adults courts for criminal prosecution
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Status offense
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Conduct that illegal only because the child is under age
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Uniform crime report
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done by the FBI the UCr is the most widely used source of the national crime and del statistics
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self report survey
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questionaire or surey technique that ask subjects to reveal their own participation in del or criminal acts
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meta analysis
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A research technique that used the grounped data from several different studies
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25% of boys and girl commited to
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shoplifing
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racial threat theory
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As the size of the black population increase the perceived threat to the white populaion increase resulting in the greater amonut of social control imposed aganist blacks
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age of onset
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Age at which youths begin in their del career early onset is to believe to be inked with chronic offending patterns
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victimization
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# of people who are victims of a criminal act young teens are 15x more likely than older adults(65years older) to be a victim of a crime
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choice theory
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Hold that youths will engage in del and criminal behavior after weighing the consequent and benefit of thier action
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classical criminology
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Hold that decision to violate the law are weighed aganist possible punishments must over weight the benitif of illegal gain
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Genenral deterrence
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crime control policies that depend on the fear of criminal penalites such as lon prison sentence for violent crimes
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target hardening technique
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crime prevention technique that make it more harder for a would be del to carry out illegal act for example by installing a security device in a home
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criminal atavism
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The idea that del manifest physical anomalies tht make them biologically and physiologically similar to our primtive ancestors savage throwback to an earlier stage of human evolution
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biosocial theory
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The view of both thoughts and behavior have biological and social bases
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