- 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