Youth, Crime, and Justice

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Chapter Questions

Chapter 4

1. Why are official statistics alone insufficient for describing the crime problem? What other sources of data are used to describe the crime problem?
2. How would you describe juvenile crime and victimization in the United States to someone from another country?
3. What do arrest and case processing patterns show about the relationship of delinquency to race and ethnicity and gender?
4. What do victimization data show about the relationship of race and ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation?
5. What do we know about ACEs and their relationship to delinquency?
6. Are most juvenile offenders likely to be chronic offenders? Explain.