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Juvenile Delinquency
Exam 1
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Sociology
Undergraduate 3
05/06/2009

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Juvenile Delinquent
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Under 18 and Breaks the law
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Rational Action
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Act in a way that benefits you. (B.F. Skinner B>C)
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Demon logical approach
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The idea that the Devil made me do it.
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Parens Patriae
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The government has parental responsibility for it's citizens. The first juvenile court established in Chicago. "A child in trouble" rather than a "criminal"
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Status Offenses
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Only applicable to juveniles (EX. drinking, truancy, sex, smoking, running away.)
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Custody
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Arrested
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Adjudicated
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Convicted
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Committed
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Sentenced
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Detention Facility
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Jail
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Gauld Case
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rights weren't given to the juvenile. They have the right to an attorney.
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Punity
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Punish
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Rehabilitation, restitution for crime, protect society
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Why lock up?
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Theory
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explain
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Correlations
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relational not causal
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Spurious variable
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Triangular thing A impacts B vice versa, but C causes A and B.
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Bentham
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British Economist, try to understand human behavior, People make economic choices by what benefits them the most or what causes a cost B>C.(Dealing with Measurable values)
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Utilitarian view
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Things we do have use to us
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Beccaria
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Italian philosopher to explain why people commit crimes to benefit circumstances (Benefits of stealing far outweigh the consequences of stealing) “Punishment out weigh the crime”
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Classical Approach
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222
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3
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Wilson
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commentator, not scientific, catches Reagan’s attention, invites to be advisor. Locked up more criminals than any other time. “Reason people commit crime, there are no costs”
Need to make terms longer, harsher, make them pay, hope they will say “I’m not going back.” Science not necessary, it just makes sense. Make prison tougher. (VERY subjective)
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Neoclassical model
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It just makes common sense
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Most crimes committed are not caught
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Tendency to think "I'm going to get away with it"
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Positivism
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The approach that replaces common sense approach. Do the research and find correlating variables A←→ B T
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1. Find correlating variables
2. You can manipulate behavior by manipulating variables
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Two assumptions of Positivism
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Lombroso
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First introduced positivism into the field
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Atavistic
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Criminals look more like primates with out much of a prefrontal cortex. Fingertip to fingertip would be longer than a normal person. More likely to get in trouble due to lack of logic and reasoning.
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Somatot Type
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Body shape/type (New biological studies)
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Endomorphic, Ectomorphic, Mesomorphic
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3 Somatot types
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Endomorphic
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Soft, round, fat, more body weight
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Ectomorphic
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Tall and skinny, frail
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Mesomorphic
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In between, muscular (more likely to be in prison
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Sheldon
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Name of one of the people who made up the somatot types
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Biosocial
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Your genetics and how you interact with your environment. Use what you have to get what you need or want. Socialized into bullying and delinquent behaviors.
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Early Maturity Theory, Penis Envy, XY chromosome
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Female Crime theories
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Early Maturity Theory
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Girls are more likely to be in trouble when they are juveniles (Social factors influence this, older guys paying attention to them and they don’t have the mental capacity to handle this attention and doing things they wouldn’t do if they really were Seniors in high school. Depends on the way you were treated)
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X Y chromosome theory
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Y chromosome is more genetically advanced than the x chromosome
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Lombroso's theory on women
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• More animalistic when you get past the motherly instincts. Protective of offspring. Most vicious when you get in a fight.
• Don’t commit as many crimes when when they do it is pretty bad.
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Biological Theories
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Innate, inborn, inherent
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Erik Erikson
Definition
• Individual
• Early Childhood development
• Aim treatment at the individual
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Freud
Definition
Modern psychoanalysis approach
• Physical science impact, said you don’t have to see it for it to be there. But you can see its INFLUENCE
• Id
• Ego
• Superego
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Trust and Identity
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Erik Erikson, if the first crumbles, so will everything else
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Id
Definition
innate drive that desires basic pleasures (pleasure seeking)
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Super Ego
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Social Acceptance
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Ego
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Compromise between the id and the superego
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 Over Developed super ego → Suppressed Id (Explosive in behavior)  Under Developed super ego → psychopathic behavior, Harm→ no guilt(no concern for human welfare, only concerned for self, but able to hurt self at times. Won’t feel bad if they hurt you.)  Over Developed Id → Harming people → Guilt (Self-defeating behavior → Behavior someone goes through “I don’t deserve rewards in life”) (Active super ego that causes them to feel guilt)
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Freud's Deviant Explanations
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Tautology
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Circular Argument
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Gender Roles
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Socially devised responsibilities
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Emancipation
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to be made free
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Adler
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Studied delinquency from gender role idea and her two conditions
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• Two conditions that have lead to the increase on female delinquency … attempted to:
o imitate masculine roles
o Confusion over roles
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Adlers two conditions that have lead to female delinquency
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Radical
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Females commit crime out of frustration to male dominants and in accommodation to exploitation.
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Study Red
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