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3. However, because there is a greater focus on the emotional background of the ______
youth, than on the average person, more emotional problems may be given to
delinquent that to law abiding youths. The deviant may come from the emotional
disorder, but in some cases, there may not be any causal connection between the two.
4. Delinquent behavior may cause emotional disorders. Delinquent youth may develop an
induced emotional disturbance as a result of ______ , long-term incarceration, or a
variety of abnormal social forces involved in the administration of justice.
220. Stages of Delinquency
a. He or she then may move on to shoplifting and vandalism between ages 12 to 14.
b. The child begins with petty larceny between 8 and sometime during 12 th year.
c. At the age of 13, there is a substantial increase in variety and seriousness.
d. At around 15, four or more types of crime are added.
221. Classification of Delinquency
225. they become delinquents as a result of their association with people from whom they
learned deviant values.
226. a result of distortion in their personality and their ideas and perception of the world
around them.
227. youths with severe personality disorders have a significantly distorted perception of
the society and people around them.
228. More likely to become property violators than violent offenders.
229. Commit delinquent acts because of their insecurities about their masculinity
230. Tend to commit the most heinous and senseless acts of violence.
231. youths who become kleptomaniacs, shoplifters and pyromaniacs
232. Because of their character defect, they can easily victimize others with little or no
anxiety or guilt.
233. commit acts of violence, including murder.
234. characterized by an egocentric personality.
235. many violent gangsters are ________?.
236. chronic lawbreakers who make breaking of laws a habit they cannot avoid or escape
from it
237. They are “pro-social”, like they do what others are doing.
238. become delinquent due to mental illness or serious emotional disturbances in the
family.
239. occasional lawbreakers
240. – generally commit the more serious infractions, most often sent to a correctional
institutions
241. Children as “Non-Human” Practices:
_________
__________
Swaddling
242. stems from personality disturbance rather than gang activity or slum residence
243. specified condition under which immaturity was to be considered in imposing
punishment.
244. these delinquents participate in a group. Having common or similar characteristics.
245. dates only to somewhere between the 14th and 17th centuries.
246. Children as “Miniature Adults” Practices:
Adult ______ for misdeeds
______ and apprenticeship
Morality, sex and ________
247. Made distinctions between juveniles and adults based on the notion “age of
responsibility”.
248. The Talmud (body of Jewish civil and religious laws) specified condition under which
immaturity was to be considered in imposing punishment.
249. This law resulted in the “Twelve tables” which made it clear that children were
criminally responsible for violation of law and were to be dealt with by the same criminal
justice system as adults
250. No corporal punishment prior to puberty, which was considered to be the age of __
for females and __ for males
251. Punishments were less severe than adults
252. No capital punishment was to be imposed on those offenders under __ years of age.
253. Based on custom or usage
254. Similar leniency was found among Moslems. Children under age of 17 were typically
exempt from death penalty.
255. This time, the concept of childhood was fully developed
256. This law was influenced by Roman and Canon Law, which emerged in England during
the eleventh and twelfth centuries
257. The first separate juvenile court was established in ____ on ____.
258. The Child Offender in the Eighteenth Century