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Delinquency Risks and Protective Factors MCQ

_____ is unfair belief that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same.

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Correct Answer: Stereotyping

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Is static risk factors risk factors for individuals that are difficult to change?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as to separate or divide (people, activities, or institutions) along racial, sexual, or religious lines.

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Correct Answer: Segregation

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_____ is defined as measured and defined in several ways: the capacity for children and adolescents to thrive in the face of risks and difficulties, and a capacity for successful adaption despite the circumstances.

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Correct Answer: Resiliency

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_____ is phrase that represents the disproportionate number of youthful offenders of color who come into contact with the juvenile justice (and adult) system.

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Correct Answer: Racial and ethnic disparities

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Is protective factors protective factors may be the absence of certain delinquency risk factors. Or, protective factors may be an external or internal influence that decreases the impact of risk factors or influences a more positive outcome?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as u.S. Government considers a person to be living in poverty if household income is below a certain income threshold. These poverty guidelines are available through the Department of Health and Human Services and are revised annually.

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Correct Answer: Poverty

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_____ is defined as cohort studies that follow over time a group of similar individuals who differ with respect to certain factors under study, to determine how these factors affect rates of a certain outcome.

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Correct Answer: Longitudinal studies

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_____ is when a child is removed from a parent’s or guardian’s home because of maltreatment concerns and placed with a related family member.

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Correct Answer: Kincare placements

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Is implicit bias bias in judgment and/or behavior that results from subtle cognitive processes?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as attitudes and beliefs one has about a person or group on a conscious level.

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Correct Answer: Explicit bias

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_____ is defined as multidimensional classification approach, identifying risks as the young person relates and interacts with family, peers, school, and community/neighborhood.

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Correct Answer: Ecological/psychosocial model

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_____ is risk factors of individuals that are changeable, for example, parenting quality, school issues, adolescent skills deficits, and peer associations.

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Correct Answer: Dynamic risk factors

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Many schools are ______ by class and race.

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Correct Answer: Segregated

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The safest environment for children and teens is a(n) ______.

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Correct Answer: School

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Nationwide, ______ youthful offenders are referred to the juvenile courts for delinquency at a rate 140% greater than White youthful offenders

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Correct Answer: Black

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The students more likely to be diagnosed with learning disabilities are ______.

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Correct Answer: Students of color

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For adolescents, one of the strongest family-related risk factors is ______.

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Correct Answer: Intra-familial violence

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Some youths experience the effects of numerous risk factors at the same time, referred to as ______.

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Correct Answer: Comorbidity

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Which of the following is a school-related factor of delinquency?

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Correct Answer: Bullying

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Which of the following types of students are disproportionately involved in school disciplinary protocols.

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Correct Answer: Children who change schools often

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The ______ the age of onset of behavior difficulties, the greater chance there is for adolescent delinquency.

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Correct Answer: Earlier

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States in the ______ have the highest proportion of the nation’s poor children (about 42%).

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Correct Answer: South

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Which of the following are experiences that decrease the likelihood of harmful outcomes, such as involvement with the juvenile court.

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Correct Answer: Protective factors

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Which of the following is an example of a dynamic risk factor?

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Correct Answer: Current alcohol use

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______ can be defined as experiences, traits, or issues that make an outcome more likely.

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Correct Answer: Risk factors

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