Juvenile Justice System Ch 3,4,5

Front 1

THEORY

Back 1

idea or set of principles that explain a phenomenon

Front 2

HEDONISTIC

Back 2

people attempt to maximize pleasure andminimize pain.

Front 3

GENERAL DETERRENCE

Back 3

its suppse to discourage delinquents from committing crimes due to threat of punishment.

Front 4

SPECIFIC DETERRENCE

Back 4

sanction imposed individually on adjudicated delinquents to prevent them from continuing to commit delinquent acts

Front 5

ATAVISM

Back 5

reversion to a primitive type

Front 6

ENDOMORPH

Back 6

body structure soft, round and fat

Front 7

MESOMORPH

Back 7

body structure that is muscular firm and strong

Front 8

ECTOMORPH

Back 8

body structure that is thin and frail

Front 9

MONOZYGOTIC OR IDENTICAL TWINS

Back 9

one egg and one sperm twins

Front 10

DIZYGOTIC OR FRATERNAL TWINS

Back 10

two eggs and two sperm twins

Front 11

CONCORDANCE RATE

Back 11

similarity of delinquent behavior

Front 12

BIOSOCIAL FACGTORS

Back 12

biological and social factors that lead to delinquency

Front 13

HORMONES

Back 13

substances of the body that control bodily functions like central nervous system and reproduction.

Front 14

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM

Back 14

controls the body's involuntary functions such as blood pressure and heart rate.

Front 15

ID

Back 15

the part of ones personality that is contains unconscious biological and psychological desires and instincts

Front 16

EGO

Back 16

ones personality actual behavior

Front 17

SUPEREGO

Back 17

one's personality that represents the moral character

Front 18

REPRESSION

Back 18

defense mechanism in which threatening impulses, wishes and feelings are kept from consciousness

Front 19

DISPLACEMENT

Back 19

defense mechanism that uses a substitute person or object to gratify an impulse.

Front 20

REGRESSION

Back 20

defense mech that involves going back to a reaction

Front 21

REACTION FORMATION

Back 21

defense mech which occurs when a forbidden impulse is replaced with its opposite

Front 22

RATIONALIZATION

Back 22

defense mech which justifies one's behavior with socially acceptable reasons

Front 23

PERSONALITY

Back 23

the emotional and behavioral attributes of an individual

Front 24

CONDUCT DISORDER

Back 24

disorder that involves the commission of delinquent acts and little concern for the feelings of others

Front 25

CLASSIC CONDITIONING

Back 25

theory that people learn by associating stimuli with certain responses

Front 26

MODELING

Back 26

theory that people lean by imitating the behavior of others

Front 27

OPERANT CONDITIONING

Back 27

theory that sates people learn based on the consequences of their behavior

Front 28

INTERSTITIAL AREA

Back 28

area of city with high delinquency rates in which factories and commercial business exist along with private residences

Front 29

NORMS

Back 29

prescriptions for appropriate behavior

Front 30

CONFORMITY

Back 30

mode of adaptation that accepts of the cultural goal of economic success and acceptance of the institutionalized means to obtain it.

Front 31

RITUALISM

Back 31

mode of adaptation-rejection of economic success and acceptance of of the institutionalized means to obtain it

Front 32

INNOVATION

Back 32

mode of adaptation-acceptance of economic success and rejection of the institutionalized means to obtain it.

Front 33

RETREATISM

Back 33

mode of adaptation-rejection of the economic success and rejection of the institutionalised means to obtain it

Front 34

REBELLION

Back 34

mode of adaptation that rejection and substitution of the economic success and rejection and substitution of the instituonalized means to obtain itl

Front 35

SUBCULTURE

Back 35

values, norms and beliefs different from those of the dominant culture

Front 36

MIDDLE CLASS MEASURING RODS

Back 36

standards and values used to evaluate youth in school

Front 37

STATUS FRUSTRATON

Back 37

occurs due to a persons inability to obtain the goal of middle class status

Front 38

ILLIGITIMATE OPPORTUNITY STRUTURE

Back 38

criminal enterprises and criminal mentors that help youth become criminals.

Front 39

CRIMINAL GAGS

Back 39

organized gangs that can help youth become successful criminals

Front 40

CONFLICT GANGS

Back 40

disorganized that do not have adult role models

Front 41

RETREATIST GANGS

Back 41

gangs that retreat into drug and alcohol use

Front 42

DIFFERENTIAL ASSOCIATION

Back 42

theory that delinquency occurs from social interaction and learning

Front 43

OPERANT CONDITIONING

Back 43

theory-behavior is controlled by the consequences of the behavior

Front 44

PRIMARY DEVIANCE

Back 44

initial acts of delinquency that go undetected by parents, family, friends and the jjs

Front 45

SECONDARY DEVIANCE

Back 45

continued delinquent behavior because the individual is acting according to the label

Front 46

STATUS DEGRADATION CEREMONY

Back 46

term to describe the labeling process.

Front 47

DIVERSION

Back 47

the removal of juveniles from the jj process and given them treatment services outside the jjs

Front 48

DEINSTITUTINALIZATION

Back 48

the removal of juveniles from institution because of the labeling effects and placing them in community based corrections.

Front 49

PENACEA

Back 49

a quick fix preventive program for delinquency

Front 50

EARLY PRE DELINQUENT INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION

Back 50

programs designed to charge children at risk of becoming delinquents

Front 51

BLUEPRINTS MODEL PROGAMS

Back 51

10 model prevention an detention programs that meet scientific standard

Front 52

NET WIDENING

Back 52

the use of diversion and prevention programs as a means to bring more juvenile under court control