Question 1

John Hagan and associates have speculated that gender differences in delinquency are a function of ________________ differences that influence family life.

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Question 2

Early criminologists viewed the female offender as an aberration who engaged in crimes that usually had a _________________ connotation.

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Question 3

Early theorists linked _______________ sexuality to female criminality.

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Question 4

In ________________ families,fathers are the breadwinners of the family and mothers stay at home. Mothers are expected to control the behavior of their daughters while granting freedoms to their sons.

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Question 5

The ___________________ is the view that low female crime and delinquency rates are a reflection of the leniency with which police treat female offenders.

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Question 6

The ___________________ perspective examines the structure of economic conditions and traditional sex roles that limit female opportunities.

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Question 7

The androgen most often related to antisocial behavior is ____________________.

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Question 8

In 1925,Cyril Burt linked female delinquency to _____________________.

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Question 9

Girls subjected to sexual abuse in their early adolescence are more likely to enter into what is called the __________ of abuse and victimization as they mature.​

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Question 10

The _________________ brain is believed to control spatial relations.

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Question 11

Research has found that a caring adult,school success and connectedness,and ___________ may protect against some forms of delinquent behavior for high-risk girls.

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Question 12

_____________________ feminists believe female delinquency originates with the onset of male supremacy,the subordination of women,male aggression,and the efforts of men to control females sexually.

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Question 13

_____________________ theory is a theory of development that holds that children internalize gender scripts that reflect the gender-related social practices of the culture.

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Question 14

The United States strengthened the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 in 2005 with the inclusion of a $360 million funding package.The package expanded the ______________ program,a nationwide initiative that helps law enforcement agents pursue sex traffickers and child prostitution rings.

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Question 15

There are cognitive differences between adolescent males and females;girls have been found to be superior in ______________ ,while boys test higher in math.

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Question 16

Psychologist Janey Shibley Hyde found that men and women are basically more alike than different on critical psychological variables;she refers to her finding as the __________________________ hypothesis.

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Question 17

Critical feminists view _________________ as the personification of the exploitation of women for financial gain.​

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Question 18

According to _______________________,gender differences in delinquency rates are a function of class differences and economic conditions that influence the structure of family life.

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Question 19

Studies of girls who are chronic ____________ document significant levels of sexual and physical victimization although their offense behavior may not appear to be very serious.

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Question 20

According to Freud,psychological conflict in girls was caused by ____________,which resulted in an inferiority complex in girls.

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Quiz 5: Developmental Views of Delinquency: Life Course and Latent Trait