CRIMJ 441 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Grade Retention, Truancy, Fetus
29 Jan 2017
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Increase the likelihood of delinquency (risk factors) Reduce the likelihood of delinquency (protective factors) Onset, peak, and desistence- age crime curve. Early onset of antisocial bahavior: prenatal and perinatal factors. Complications while in the fetus and immediately after birth. Poor development of empathy, guilt, moral reasoning. Multigenerational involvement in crime, substance abuse, and dropping out of school: family interaction. Poor, inconsistent, or extreme (high and low) discipline. Static and dynamic risk factors: static: characteristics that cannot change with treatment. Number of out-of-home placements: dynamic: characteristics that can change with planned intervention or control of the situation. Handling risk: handling risk is the primary function of the juvenile court and juvenile justice agencies- to increase public safety, options for handling risk: All offenders can be handled in the same way. Each offender could be handled in a random fashion largely dependent on the subjective opinions of the decisions makers.
