Deck 12: Delinquency Prevention

Question 1

_____,in the Public Health approach, focuses on intervening with children and young people who are potentially at risk for becoming offenders.

A)Primary prevention
B)Secondary prevention
C)Tertiary prevention
D)General prevention

Answer 1

B

Question 2

A popular and effective form of family support according to the text is _____.

A)Head Start
B)Mentor America
C)Home visitation
D)PALS

Answer 2

C

Question 3

One study puts the total cost of a murder, which includes victim costs plus costs to the justice system, at just under _____.

A)$1 M
B)$5 M
C)$ 8 M
D)$10 M

Answer 3

D

Question 4

A Rand study found that parent training costs about one-twentieth of what a home visit program costs and is more effective in preventing _____.

A)Serious crimes
B)Status offenses
C)School failure
D)Substance abuse

Question 5

The only national estimate of the costs of juvenile delinquency focuses on _____.

A)Status crimes
B)Sexual crimes
C)Juvenile violence
D)Substance abuse

Question 6

______received federal funding and attempted an integrated approach to community development.

A)Mobilization for Youth (MOBY)
B)Chicago Area Project
C)Boston's Mid-City Project
D)Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study

Question 7

______, in the Public Health approach, focuses on intervening with adjudicated juvenile offenders through such measures as substance abuse treatment and imprisonment.

A)Primary prevention
B)Secondary prevention
C)Tertiary prevention
D)General prevention

Question 8

The most widely cited parenting skills program is one created by the ______

A)Administration on Children, Youth, and Families
B)Oregon Social Learning Center
C)Westinghouse Learning Center
D)Administration for Children and Families

Question 9

_______ has provided thousands of youths with advisors and relies on responsible and caring adults to volunteer their time as mentors to young people.

A)Project PATHE
B)Mobilization for Youth (MOBY)
C)Quantum Opportunities Program
D)Juvenile Mentoring Program

Question 10

The principle aim of the _____ initiative is to "identify and replicate effective youth violence prevention programs across the nation."

A)Blueprints for Violence Prevention
B)Federal Mentoring for Violence Prevention
C)Quantum Opportunities
D)SafeFutures Initiative

Question 11

Started by Shaw and McKay, _____ was one of the earliest juvenile delinquency prevention programs.

A)Chicago Area Project
B)House of Refuge
C)Detached Street Workers
D)Cambridge Project

Question 12

_____ focused on the effects of an early preventive intervention program for 6-year-old boys who were aggressive and hyperactive and from poor neighborhoods.

A)Mobilization for Youth (MOBY)
B)Chicago Area Project
C)Montreal Longitudinal-Experimental Study
D)Boston's Mid-City Project

Question 13

______ dispatched trained social workers to seek out and meet with youth gangs three to four times a week on the gang's own turf.

A)Mobilization for Youth (MOBY)
B)Chicago Area Project
C)Boston's Mid-City Project
D)Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study

Question 14

______as part of health education classes is one type of school-based prevention program that has received much attention in the U.S.in recent years.

A)Violence prevention curricula for adolescents
B)Quantum Opportunities
C)Federal mentoring programs
D)Juvenile mentoring programs

Question 15

______,in the Public Health approach, focuses on improving the general well-being of individuals through such measures as access to health care services and general prevention education.

A)Primary prevention
B)Secondary prevention
C)Tertiary prevention
D)General prevention

Question 16

______is a comprehensive program used in secondary schools that reduces school disorder and aims to improve the school environment.

A)Project PATHE
B)Big Brothers Big Sisters Program
C)Quantum Opportunities Program
D)Juvenile Mentoring Program

Question 17

The Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study was one of the first delinquency prevention programs to be evaluated using a _____.

A)Control group
B)Cost-benefit analysis
C)Self-report study
D)Randomized Experimental design

Question 18

In the _____ a major focus on delinquency prevention programs was to reach out to youth who were unlikely to use community centers.

A)1930s
B)1940s
C)1950s
D)1960s

Question 19

The Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC) personnel taught parents _____.

A)Disciplinary techniques that stress firmness
B)Scowling or scolding is effective at deterring their children's behavior
C)Time out is ineffective for controlling their children's behavior
D)Explosive discipline is a last resort form of discipline

Question 20

In 1933, Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay developed the _____

A)Mobilization for Youth (MOBY)
B)Chicago Area Project
C)Boston's Mid-City Project
D)Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study

Question 21

Head Start programs were instituted in the 1960s as a part of President _______War on Poverty.

Question 22

The ______was set up to help improve the lives of young people at high risk for delinquency, gang involvement, substance abuse and other problem behaviors.

A)Mobilization for Youth program (MOBY)
B)YMCA
C)Chicago Area Project
D)Children At Risk program (CAR)

Question 23

________ is a Canadian program implemented in a public housing development in Ottawa that recruits low-income young people to participate in after-school activities.

A)Participate and Learn Skills (PALS)
B)Project PATHE
C)Quantum Opportunities Program
D)Juvenile Mentoring Program

Question 24

Experimentation with comprehensive community-based delinquency prevention began with the ______.

A)Mobilization for Youth program (MOBY)
B)YMCA
C)Chicago Area Project
D)Children At Risk Program (CAR)

Question 25

The most common areas of increased risk, based on a large number of male and female youths enrolled in the Juvenile Mentoring Programs are _____ and _____.

Question 26

______is the best-known and largest job training program in the United States.

A)YouthBuild U.S.A.
B)Job Corps
C)Peace Corps
D)Dream Job

Question 27

More than _____ of all married couples with school-age children (ages 6 to 17) have both parents working outside the home.

A)one half
B)one quarter
C)nine tenths
D)two-thirds

Question 28

The _____ used a method in which teachers learn techniques that reward appropriate student behavior and minimize disruptive behavior.

A)Good Behavior Game
B)Quantum Opportunities Program
C)Seattle Social Development Project
D)Juvenile Mentoring Program

Question 29

The _______teaches teachers and parents of students in first through sixth grade to reward appropriate behavior and to consistently provide negative consequences for undesirable behavior.

Question 30

One approach to reduce the costs of juvenile delinquency that has garnered a great deal of attention in recent years is _____.

Question 31

Elements in the _____experimental design are the experimental group and the control group.

Question 32

Schools are a critical _____ context for delinquency prevention efforts, from early to later grades.

A)Economic
B)Social
C)Cultural
D)Psychological

Question 33

In 1996, the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) at the University of
Colorado at Boulder launched _____.

A)Communities That Care (CTC)
B)Children At Risk program (CAR)
C)SafeFutures Initiative
D)Blueprints for Violence Prevention initiative

Question 34

The Nurse-Family Partnership is the best-known ______ program.

Question 35

The _____ program was set up to help improve the lives of young people at high risk for delinquency, gang involvement, substance abuse, and other problem behaviors.

Question 36

Developmental prevention refers to interventions, especially those targeting _____ designed to prevent the growth of criminal potential in individuals.

A)Status offenses
B)School failure
C)Alcohol abuse
D)Risk and protective factors

Question 37

Boston's Mid-City Program was the best-known ______ program.

Question 38

Boys and Girls Clubs of America are one of the most successful ______ in preventing juvenile delinquency.

A)Mentoring programs
B)After-school programs
C)Job training programs
D)Comprehensive community-based programs

Question 39

In 1996 the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado at Boulder launched the _____ initiative.

Question 40

Boot camps present an example of delinquency ______

Question 41

The Public Health Approach is divided into primary prevention, secondary prevention
and general prevention.

Question 42

The history of the prevention of juvenile delinquency in the US is closely tied to the _____.

Question 43

Distinguished from control or repression, _____ seeks to reduce the risk factors for delinquency before antisocial behavior or delinquency becomes a problem.

Question 44

______ is a comprehensive program used in secondary schools that reduces school disorder and aims to improve the school environment.

Question 45

Delinquency prevention programs are designed with the intention of excluding juvenile justice personnel.

Question 46

The authors speak to the many faces of delinquency prevention.Explain what they mean by this turn of words.Describe what delinquency prevention means to you.

Question 47

Discuss the national estimate of costs related to juvenile violence. Should individual states bear responsibility for a greater percentage of the costs related to juvenile violence? Explain your position.

Question 48

Explain the public heath approach to delinquency prevention.

Question 49

Delinquency prevention typically involves the juvenile justice system.

Question 50

______ was started in 1978 by a group of young people in New York City to provide job training in carpentry and construction to disadvantaged, unemployed youths.

Question 51

______ is the best-known and largest job training program in the United States.

Question 52

Delinquency prevention programs receive a fraction of what is spent on the juvenile justice system to deal with young people once they have broken the law.

Question 53

Explain the developmental perspective to classify delinquency prevention activities.

Question 54

An evaluation of the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study found that the control group
committed more crime than those in the experimental group.

Question 55

The Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC) targeted first-time mothers-to-be to receive home visits from nurses during their pregnancy.

Question 56

One report found that by age 5, children who experienced the enriched day care offered by Head Start averaged a 10 point gain on their IQ scores.

Question 57

Nearly one-fourth of the programs reviewed in the Blueprints for Violence Prevention initiative were found to meet the established scientific standards to be proven effective.

Question 58

There are only two methods by which to classify delinquency prevention programs - public health approach and the developmental perspective.

Question 59

Discuss federally funded delinquency prevention programs. Explain your view of the federal government funding such programs.

Question 60

Violence prevention curricula as part of health education classes is one type of school- based prevention program that has received much attention in recent years in the US.

Question 61

Discuss Positive Action Through Holistic Education (PATHE).Do you think that school should be responsible for providing delinquency prevention programs? Explain.

Question 62

Discuss the research regarding programs aimed at improving parenting skills.Explain your view on programs that seek to develop or enhance parenting skills.

Question 63

The authors report that delinquency prevention programs face a number of obstacles.Identify and discuss these obstacles.Which of the obstacles do you believe to be the most problematic? Explain.

Question 64

Discuss what works, what doesn't work, and what is promising in regard to school-based delinquency prevention programs.

Question 65

Discuss Denise Gottfredson's research into after-schools programs in Maryland.Explain your review on after-school programs; include in your view who should be responsible for funding such programs.