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_____ is an official request to the court that a juvenile’s case be transferred to criminal court, or transferred from criminal court to juvenile court.

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Correct Answer: waiver petition

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Is teaching-family model a model used particularly in group homes for delinquents or for children at risk. It includes adults playing the role of “parent,” encouraging youth to be socialized in a healthy family context?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as provision that gives prosecutors the authority to decide whether the case will be taken to juvenile court or criminal court.

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Correct Answer: prosecutorial waiver

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_____ is defined as the term used when defendants are jailed before trial specifically because they might flee or are considered too dangerous for pretrial release. Preventive detention for juveniles can be used if they are at risk of committing more crime, not necessarily violent crime.

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Correct Answer: preventive detention

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_____ is the doctrine in law that establishes the right of the state to substitute its presumably benevolent decision making for that of individuals who are thought to be unable or unwilling to make their own decisions. Applied particularly in cases involving children, juveniles, mentally disordered individuals, and intellectually disabled people.

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Correct Answer: parens patriae

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Is office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Pre­vention (OJJDP) the federal agency charged with overseeing juvenile justice on the national level, providing grants for juvenile research and programs, and taking a leadership role in setting policies nationwide relative to juveniles?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a community treatment approach for serious juvenile offenders that focuses on the family while being responsive to the many other contexts surrounding the family, such as the peer group, the neighborhood, and the school.

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Correct Answer: Multisystemic therapy (MST)

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_____ is defined as treatment model developed specifically with chronic offenders in the child welfare system.

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Correct Answer: Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC)

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_____ is multisite study of adjudicative competence in juveniles.

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Correct Answer: MacArthur Juvenile Competence Study

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Is legislative waiver, statutory exclusion, or waiver by statute terms used for the automatic processing of juveniles in criminal courts, typically for serious crimes. Many states, for example, require by statute that juveniles 14 and above who are charged with murder be tried in criminal courts. In some jurisdictions, criminal court judges have the authority to transfer the juvenile to juvenile court?

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Correct Answer: True

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Is juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) landmark federal legislation passed in 1974 that attempted to address the needs of juveniles in the juvenile justice sys­tem as well as those considered at risk for delinquency?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as temporary secure or nonsecure placement pending adjudication or during adjudication proceedings, up to a final disposition.

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Correct Answer: juvenile detention

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_____ is defined as the process by which a judge transfers a juvenile’s case to criminal court.

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Correct Answer: judicial waivers

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_____ is in juvenile law, this is the youth’s first official contact with the juvenile court system; the intake officer often has discretion to warn the youth, refer the youth for prosecution, or divert the youth to community services.

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Correct Answer: intake

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Is houses of refuge institutional settings presumably intended to protect, nurture, and educate neglected or wayward children during the mid-19th century?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as family preservation approach that tries to keep antisocial children in their homes and offers highly intensive services to the family for a short period of time.

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Correct Answer: homebuilders model

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_____ is defined as developed in the 1970s for behaviorally disturbed adolescents whose parents were unable to control their acting-out behaviors. It combines social learning, cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, and family systems theories.

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Correct Answer: Functional family therapy (FFT)

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_____ is approaches that try to prevent youth with minor behavioral problems and their family from becoming more dysfunctional. The major intention is to keep the family unit together, presuming that this is in the best interest of the family as a whole.

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Correct Answer: family preservation models

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Is diversion any one of a number of programs used to steer someone away from formal or traditional court processing, such as diversion of juveniles to a substance abuse program or diversion of some defendants to mental health courts?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the observation that racial and ethnic minorities are disproportionately detained and incarcerated.

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Correct Answer: Disproportionate minority confinement (DMC)

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_____ is defined as the resolution of a legal matter. In criminal law, an example would be the sentence a defendant receives. In civil law, the disposition of a case may be a judgment in favor of the plaintiff. In juvenile law, a disposition is the equivalent of a criminal sentence.

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Correct Answer: disposition

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_____ is the equivalent of a criminal trial in adult courts. Juveniles have constitu­tional rights similar to adult offenders, including rights to an attor­ney, to confront and cross-examine their accusers, and to not testify against themselves. They do not have a constitutional right to a jury or to an open proceeding, though some states grant these rights.

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Correct Answer: Delinquency hearing (or adjudicatory hearing)

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Is delinquency petition in juvenile courts, the prosecutor’s document charging a juvenile with an offense that, if proven, would qualify the juvenile as a delinquent?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as mandate from the JJDPA that states receiving funds for juvenile jus­tice programs must remove all juveniles from adult jails and must also remove status offenders from secure institutions.

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Correct Answer: Deinstitutionalization of status offenders (DSO)

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_____ is defined as ability to make decisions in one’s own best interest. Research indicates that juveniles—given their stage of development—are unlikely to have the emotional sophistication and maturity to make such decisions when confronted with the criminal justice process.

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Correct Answer: decisional competency

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_____ is in the juvenile justice system, this refers to giving juveniles a mix of juvenile and adult sanctions, such as a juvenile treatment program followed by adult parole supervision once the juvenile has reached adulthood.

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Correct Answer: blended sentencing

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Is biological/neurological perspective the research perspective that biological, genetic, or neuropsychological factors make a significant contribution to aggression?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is refers to the extent to which an offender, particularly a juvenile, is likely to benefit from programs or services available within an institutional or community setting.

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Correct Answer: amenability to rehabilitation

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Is aggression replacement training (ART) treatment program for aggressive children and adolescents consisting of skillstreaming (teaching a broad range of prosocial behaviors), anger control training, and moral reasoning?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as in the juvenile justice system, this term is the equivalent of parole.

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Correct Answer: aftercare

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A primary goal of multisystemic therapy involves helping juveniles break bonds with ______ and develop bonds with ______.

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Correct Answer: Antisocial peers; prosocial peers

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Detention is a type of juvenile rehabilitation program.

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Correct Answer: False

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Research shows that most juveniles understand their Miranda rights.

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Correct Answer: False

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In Kent v. United States (1966), the Supreme Court held that a judge must hold a hearing before transferring a juvenile to adult court.

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Correct Answer: True

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Which offense is often considered a violent offense according to juvenile crime statistics?

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Correct Answer: Vandalism

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Which treatment model involves skill streaming, anger control training, and moral reasoning?

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Correct Answer: Aggression replacement training

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The preferred method of treatment for juvenile sex offenders involves ______.

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Correct Answer: Peer groups

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Psychologists conducting a juvenile sex offender evaluation for courts or correctional officials should be prepared to answer not only whether the juvenile is a good candidate for treatment but also whether the juvenile is likely to reoffend.

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Correct Answer: True

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Which statement about the relationship between sexual victimization and sexual abuse is correct?

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Correct Answer: Many juvenile sex offenders were sexually abused as children.

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According to the biological/neurological perspective on violence, ______.

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Correct Answer: Some children and adolescents are predisposed to violent behavior due to their unique biological and/or neurological makeup

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A major disadvantage of secure treatment for adolescents is the ______.

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Correct Answer: The tendency of adolescents to align with one another and reinforce deviant behaviors

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The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act was passed by Congress in the year ______.

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Correct Answer: 1974

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The term juvenile detention refers to ______.

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Correct Answer: Temporary placement in a secure or nonsecure setting

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Which theory is based on multisystemic therapy?

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Correct Answer: Systems theory

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One of the most common models for the treatment of adolescents in a group home setting is the ______.

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Correct Answer: Teaching-family model

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