Deck 10: Community and National Intervention Strategies

Question 1

One of the most popular and long lasting gang intervention programs has been the _________ program.

A) CRASH
B) Cul de Sac
C) Detached worker
D) Homeboy Industries

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What program was developed by the National Guard in 1993 to try to change at risk youth's lives?

A) CRASH
B) GREAT
C) DARE
D) Youth ChalleNGe

Answer 2

D

Question 3

This strategy refers to efforts to enhance, modify, or change relationships among different groups and organizations within a city to better cope with various problems.

A) Social intervention
B) Community organization
C) Opportunities provision
D) Suppression

Answer 3

B

Question 4

These would include programs such as Head Start, based on the assumption that delinquency is related to poor school performance and dropping out, which in turn are related to a lack of preparedness for school, especially among lower-class minorities.

A) Early educational interventions
B) Proven programs
C) Promising programs
D) Proven strategies

Question 5

According to the text, much of the public's response to youth gangs has been to:

A) Create programs
B) Create harsher penalties for gang members
C) Ignore the problem as nothing works
D) Target inner city neighborhoods with positive messages

Question 6

Many programs described only target marginally at risk youth that require minimal intervention. What program was designed to target high at risk youth and was very successful at doing just that?

A) Detention diversion advocacy project
B) LA Bridges
C) Youth ChalleNGe
D) Cul de Sac

Question 7

This strategy is an attempt to provide jobs, job training, and education, particularly for the most at-risk youths.

A) Social intervention
B) Community organization
C) Opportunities provision
D) Suppression

Question 8

Building strong bonding with the long-term goal of assisting children in developing into healthy adults is a description of:

A) Social development strategy
B) Social bonding theory
C) Social ecology
D) Research based community programs

Question 9

This strategy describes a variety of strictly law-enforcement strategies, including special patrols by police gang units, special prosecution efforts within the district attorney's office, legislation that targets gang activities, and development and implementation of information systems.

A) Social intervention
B) Community organization
C) Opportunities provision
D) Suppression

Question 10

The efforts of lay persons or non-legal experts acting on behalf of youthful offenders at disposition hearings is called:

A) Case management
B) Disposition case advocacy
C) Detention advocacy
D) Youth support advocacy

Question 11

These are programs that have been subjected to rigorous evaluations that showed positive results.

A) Promising programs
B) Proven strategies
C) Proven programs
D) Peer reviewed programs

Question 12

All are guidelines that national comprehensive programs should follow except:

A) Strengthen the family
B) Support core institutions such as schools
C) Promote delinquency prevent programs
D) Be focused for low income neighborhoods

Question 13

The community approach to the social development strategy has 4 specific steps. All are currently used steps except:

A) Involving key community leaders
B) Forming a community board or task force
C) Securing funding through private investors
D) Planning and evaluation methods

Question 14

According to OJJDP programs should focus on risk factors. Which is not a risk factor as identified by the OJJDP?

A) Family influences
B) School experiences
C) Individual age
D) Community influences

Question 15

All are goals of the Detention diversion advocacy program except:

A) Provide multi-level interventions
B) Demonstrate that community-based interventions are an effective alternative to custody
C) Reduce minority incarnation
D) Increase government spending to at risk youth programs

Question 16

What programs motto is "Nothing stops a bullet like a job"?

A) LA bridges
B) Homeboy Industries
C) Detached Worker
D) Cul de Sac

Question 17

The majority of prevention programs fall into one of three broad categories: 1) early childhood and family interventions, 2) school-based interventions, and:

A) Law enforcement interventions
B) Legislative interventions
C) Community based interventions
D) Government interventions

Question 18

What youth program in the 80's was considered a bureaucratic program?

A) GREAT
B) LA Bridges
C) Detached worker
D) Homeboy industries

Question 19

This strategy has been used for many years to deal with youth and related problems. They include the very popular (and, incidentally, not very successful) strategies of youth outreach and street-work counseling.

A) Social intervention
B) Community organization
C) Opportunities provision
D) Suppression

Question 20

What program was modeled after the DARE program?

A) LA Bridges
B) Detached Worker
C) CRASH
D) GREAT

Question 21

One of the most comprehensive overviews of delinquency-prevention programs is the text by Dryfoos.

Question 22

Describe the risk focused prevention method and provide an example of a program.

Question 23

The problem of gangs is not related to social inequality.

Question 24

Borrowing heavily from the social development model devised by Hawkins and Catalano, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention suggests that programs should focus on the key risk factors that strongly correlate with serious and chronic delinquency.

Question 25

The ????_____________________ model of DDAP provides frequent and consistent support and supervision to youth and their families.

Question 26

The ________________ strategy refers to efforts to enhance, modify, or change relationships among different groups and organizations within a city to better cope with various problems.

Question 27

The Rand Corporation conducted a study of what it called "_____________" programs that address the problem of gangs and youth violence.

Question 28

Describe some of the successful anti-gang programs and what the components of these programs were.

Question 29

A rather ambitious effort was undertaken in Los Angeles starting in 1997 called project HOPE.

Question 30

One of the major problems with most programs reviewed is that they rarely target kids who are seriously at risk of joining gangs or are in gangs.

Question 31

The theory of differential association suggests that increasing opportunities, skills, and recognition leads to greater bonding, which in turn leads to healthier beliefs and clear standards, which in turn lead to healthy behaviors.

Question 32

____________ prevention is based on the assumption that trying to prevent a problem from occurring in the first place is better than trying to deal with it after the fact (similar to the old saying "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure").

Question 33

Gangs are strictly law-enforcement problems.

Question 34

Often overlooked partners in combating gang problems are social service agencies, which are often the only point of contact with troubled youth.

Question 35

Crime may be less likely to occur in communities with stronger social capital.

Question 36

What was the National Guard Youth ChallenNGe program and what were the components of this program?

Question 37

Much of the public response to the problem of youth gangs has been the creation of "programs."

Question 38

_______________ involves building connections, valuing community, and emphasizing learning/doing and attaching/belonging.