Chapter 4 Self Check Quiz

. According to Thomas J. Bernard, public policy cannot solve youth crime if it arises from social conditions and inequalities as opposed to legitimate needs of the juvenile justice system.

. The JJDPA, the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act has largely remained unchanged since its passage in 1974.

. Which of the following is a status offense?

. An abused and/or neglected child involved with the courts MAY be placed in secure detention or locked confinement.

. A "VCO" stands for:

. A youth deemed to be a Juvenile Offender or Adult Transfer may be detained in an adult jail for over 24 hours.

. States may choose whether or not to gather statistics and assess the cause of disproportionate minority contact of youth in their juvenile justice system.

. Studies still indicate that youth of color receive harsher sentences and are more likely to be incarcerated than white youth for the same offenses.

. States receive grant funds based on factors OTHER than their compliance level with the core protections of JJDPA.

. One of the provisions recommended for addition to the OJJDP is informing youth of the ability to seal or expunge their records.

. The ____________ was developed by the Council on Youth Violence to serve as a central database for statistics and youth violence prevention strategies, all accessible by the public:

. All countries that experienced an increase in juvenile crime responded with tougher sanctions for juveniles and increase in transfers to the adult system.

. England and Wales responded to the increase in juvenile crime during the eighties and into the nineties by making it easier to place juveniles under age 15 into a correctional facility and to extend maximum sentences for juveniles.

. Predictions in the eighties and nineties that an increase in juvenile population would result in even higher crime rates ultimately came to fruition.

. The countries of Sweden, Russia and Denmark choose NOT to have a juvenile court.

. The World Health Organization, OWHWHO, reported that juvenile crime also increased in the late eighties into the nineties across the globe, similar to the United States.

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