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| Adolescence-limited Offenders |
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| Juveniles whose lawbreaking behavior is restricted to their teenager years |
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| The empirical trend that crime rates increase during preadolescence, peak in late adolescence, and steadily decline thereafter |
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| The Gradual decline of participation in crime after the teenage years |
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| Youths who continue to engage in lawbreaking behavior as adults. They are responsible for the most serious forms of delinquency and violent crime |
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| Concentration Disadvantage |
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| Economically impoverished, racially segregated neighborhoods with high crimes |
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| The idea that chronic offenders are unlikely to age-out of crime ans more likely to continue their law- violating behavior in their adult lives |
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| A statistical indicator consisting of eight offenses used to gauge the amount of crime reported to the police |
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| The Crimes that are the focus of the National Crime Victimization Survey |
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| The gap between the actual amount of crime committed and the crime reported to the police |
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| The mistake of assuming relationships found at the neighborhood level mean those factors are related at the individual level |
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| In the Uniform Crime Reports, the police record only the most serious crime incident |
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| The number of delinquent acts committed |
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| National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) |
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| An annual nationwide survey of criminal victimization conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics |
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| Nation Opinion Research Center (NORC) |
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| Conduct the 1st nationwide victimization survey |
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| National Youth Survey (NYS) |
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| The nationwide self-reporting survey of approximately 1,700 (11-17)children in 1976 |
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| Part I Crimes (Index Crimes) |
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| The eight offenses that form the crime index and are used to gauge the amount of crime reported to the police |
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| These are 21 less serious offenses included in the uniform Crime Reports |
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| The percentage of juveniles committing delinquency |
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| A practice where police use race as an explicit factor in "profiles" for guiding their decision making |
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| Unofficial measures of crime in which juveniles are asked about their lawbreaking making |
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| A behavior that is unlawful only for children |
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| Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) |
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| The annual publication from the FBI presenting data on crimes reported to the police, number of arrests, and number of persons arrested |
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| Victimization Survey (VS) |
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| A method of producing crime data in which people are asked about their experiences as crime victims |
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