Deck 9: Special Populations and Delinquency

Question 1

The Bureau of Justice Statistics reveals that most adolescent sex offenders commit crimes around the age of

A) 10.
B) 14.
C) 16.
D) 18.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

An important quality of juvenile sex offender cases is that they are mostly

A) contact offenses.
B) rapes
C) non-contact offenses.
D) between same age persons.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following is generally not true about juvenile sex offenders?

A) Committing a juvenile sex offense is a strong predictor of adult sex offending.
B) Only four to eight percent of adult sex offenders have been juvenile sex offenders.
C) Most juvenile sex offenders do not engage in aggressive or violent behavior.
D) All of these are true about juvenile sex offenders.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

When was O'Brien and Berra's popular system for categorizing juvenile sex offenders developed?

A) 1925
B) 1936
C) 1972
D) 1986

Question 5

Sociologist Robert McNamara conducted research on hustlers who operated in

A) Hollywood, California
B) Times Square, New York City
C) the Mission district in San Francisco
D) Paris, France

Question 6

The idea behind registry laws began in 1996, when President Clinton signed

A) Megan's Law
B) Jessica's Law
C) The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act
D) The Sex Offense Act

Question 7

Which of the following is a tendency with female juvenile sex offenders?

A) adult men are almost always involved
B) they do not usually act alone
C) Young children are usually targeted
D) the offenses are often violent

Question 8

What is a main motivating factor behind juvenile prostitution?

A) money
B) hormones
C) parental guidance
D) tradition

Question 9

What percentage of youths in the juvenile justice system has a diagnosable mental disorder?

A) 10%
B) 27%
C) 55%
D) 70%

Question 10

A person who has a long history of criminal activity lasting into adulthood is called a __________.

A) chronic criminal.
B) career criminal.
C) expert offender.
D) hopeless cause.

Question 11

What was the proposed term for juvenile sociopaths with no moral conscience who see crime as a rite of passage?

A) Chronic offenders
B) Threat offenders
C) Career criminals
D) Super predators

Question 12

Which of the following describes the use of fire as a means to achieve some objective?

A) Fire play
B) Fire setting
C) Fire interest
D) Fire involvement

Question 13

Officials at the Safer Society Foundation believe that juvenile sex offenders can be rehabilitated through ___________.

Question 14

Of all reported sex crimes, _____percent involve female offenders?

Question 15

In what type of violence did the CDC identify three main types of assault: physical, emotional, and sexual?

Question 16

_________ is a type of hacker whose motivation is solely for the thrill and challenge?

Question 17

Much of the research into juvenile prostitution in the 1990s was in response to __________.

Question 18

__________ is now the only state that allows male prostitutes to operate legally.

Question 19

In the 1980s domestic violence arrest policies changed so that now ___________.

Question 20

The link between mental illness and delinquency appears to be ________.

Question 21

__________ is a behavior often associated with juvenile fire setters.

Question 22

__________ was the proposed term for juvenile sociopaths with no moral conscience who see crime as a rite of passage.

Question 23

Computer-crime experts believe that hacking began in the 1950s with __________.

Question 24

According to O'Brien and Berra's system, what category describes juveniles with a history of delinquency, substance abuse, high level of impulsivity, and lack of self-control who are most likely to use force and violence during the offense?

Question 25

Some experts explain sex offending as a result of high testosterone levels.

Question 26

Some experts note that conduct disorders are a possible root cause that could lead to juvenile sex offenses.

Question 27

More than half of all sex crimes involve female offenders.

Question 28

According to national statistics, the recidivism rate for juvenile sex offenders is about 6 percent.

Question 29

Debt bondage is a common technique used by traffickers to keep their victims enslaved?

Question 30

Some experts note that human trafficking is said to be the fastest growing criminal industry in the world.

Question 31

The tendency for female sexual offenders is to use violence to commit their crimes.

Question 32

Only about five percent of youths in the juvenile justice system has a diagnosable mental disorder.

Question 33

When they are apprehended, the most common strategy to deal with juvenile fire starters is severe punishment.

Question 34

A person who has a long history of criminal activity lasting into adulthood is called an expert offender.

Question 35

In the 1980s, juvenile offenders who committed domestic violence were no longer handled by the juvenile justice system.