Study Guide -- Quiz Seven -- Juvenile Offenders -- (Part 3)

Choice Theories

1. Classical

Neo-Classical

Deterrence

2. Routine Activities Theory

Deterministic Theories

3. Theological (Demonology)

4. Biological (Phrenology and

Somatotypes)

5. Psychological (Behaviorism and

learning Theory)

6. Sociological (Anomie Theory)

7. (Strain Theory)

8. (Drift)

a) 6^th Theory of Causation: Anomie Theory -- Durkheim

b) 7^th Theory of Causation: Strain Theory -- Merton --

c) 8^th Theory of Causation: Drift Theory -- Sykes and Matza

7^th Theory of Causation -- Strain Theory

Strain Theory and principal author: Merton

Five family risk-factors associated with delinquent offenders

1) Inadequate supervision

2) No distinction between right and wrong

3) Unmonitored whereabouts, friends, or activities

4) Erratic discipline, and harshness of discipline

5) Marital discord -- more powerful predictor than just divorce

The “legal” definition and the “behavioral” definition of delinquent

The sources of obtaining statistics on juvenile crime delinquency

Conclusions drawn from different sources between social class offenders

How the “family unit” changed between WWII, and 2010

What a child perceives when he or she is immersed in parental discord

Juvenile-outcomes typically associated with a lack of parental solidarity

Lack of parental solidarity is even more dangerous than divorce

Children living in two parent families --White, Hispanic, and African American households

Children living in two parent families --between 1980 and 2008

Incidence of delinquency in single-parent families -- two biological-parent families