• Know the proportion of females arrested for delinquency
• Know in general the most important message that was conveyed in the seven rules of parenting that I went over in class
• What has been the trend in female and male crime in the last two decades?
• Know the racial breakdown in terms of proportion of children growing up on one parent families
• What is the relationship between drug use and delinquency?
• Know the trends in the number of gangs since 1996
• Know gang composition in terms of race and gender
• What is the primary purpose of gang graffiti?
• Know the definitions of gangs according to the Texas Attorney General's office
• Who was Frederick Thrasher and what was his claim to fame.
• Know the approximate number of gang members in the U.S.
• Why has gang activity increased over the last 2 decades?
• At what age do children become aware of gangs and join gangs?
• In what age group do most gang members belong?
• Know the precursors to gang membership
• What is the most commonly abused drug?
• What proportion of juveniles are diagnosed with ADHD and what are the symptoms of ADHD.
• Know the trends in school crime over the last few years
• What racial/ethnic group has the highest dropout rate and what is it?
• What reason is given most often for dropping out?
• Why are self report studies not that accurate?
• Know the courts holdings in the cases of In Re Gault, In Re Winship, Mckeiver v. Pennsylvania and New Jersey v. TLO
• Why did the Supreme Court reason that students have less constitutional rights?
• What age group is more likely to be victims of a violent offense?
• Know what the predictors of violent offending in later adolescence and adulthood that I went over in class. Specifically know the most important ones with the highest correlations.
• Know the overall trends in juvenile crime for both property and violent crimes and breakdowns by race/ethnicity

Know the following terms:

• Nuclear family
• Index crimes
• Tracking
• socialization