Answer the Questions for Chapters 3 and 4 of the reading.
Book:
Mallett, C.A. and Tedor, M.F.
(2019). Juvenile Delinquency: Pathways
and Prevention. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. ISBN:
9781506361024
Chapter 3 questions
Does the juvenile justice system have an accurate count of youthful offender crime and victimization rates? Justify your position through an analysis of current data-gathering methods.
What is the difference among personal crimes, property crimes, and status offenses?
Why do you think so many low-level and first-time offending adolescents become involved with the juvenile courts and/or adjudicated delinquent?
What race and gender differences are there in youthful offender populations? In other words, what is disproportionate minority contact and disproportionate minority confinement?
Why do you think that the adolescents who end up in detention and incarceration facilities have so many other problems or difficulties?
Are the detention and incarceration facility youthful offender populations similar to their non–juvenile-court-involved peers? If not, how do they differ? Be thorough, respond via race, gender, and disability.
Why are status offenses different from other youthful offender crimes?
What are the primary data sources for tracking youthful offender crime nationwide? What are the methodological strengths and limitations of these sources?
If you could design the perfect juvenile court data reporting system, what would it include and how would you improve current data-gathering methods?
Why do you think juvenile crime and victimization rates have been decreasing over the past few decades?
Chapter 4 Questions
Does the juvenile justice system have an accurate count of youthful offender crime and victimization rates? Justify your position through an analysis of current data-gathering methods.
What is the difference among personal crimes, property crimes, and status offenses?
Why do you think so many low-level and first-time offending adolescents become involved with the juvenile courts and/or adjudicated delinquent?
What race and gender differences are there in youthful offender populations? In other words, what is disproportionate minority contact and disproportionate minority confinement?
Why do you think that the adolescents who end up in detention and incarceration facilities have so many other problems or difficulties?
Are the detention and incarceration facility youthful offender populations similar to their non–juvenile-court-involved peers? If not, how do they differ? Be thorough, respond via race, gender, and disability.
Why are status offenses different from other youthful offender crimes?
What are the primary data sources for tracking youthful offender crime nationwide? What are the methodological strengths and limitations of these sources?
If you could design the perfect juvenile court data reporting system, what would it include and how would you improve current data-gathering methods?
Why do you think juvenile crime and victimization rates have been decreasing over the past few decades?
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