Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. According to Patterson and Yoerger, early-onset youngsters are likely to experience substantial stability in offending across the life course, whereas late-onset youngsters’ delinquency is likely to be limited to adolescence.
2. Helping parents to understand and implement proper parenting techniques and discipline has not shown significant reductions in problem behavior.
3. Moffitt’s work alerted us to the fact that criminal behavior emerges in the context of the developmental process in which the person and environment interact with one another.
4. A child who has a mother who smoked while pregnant, has mental illnesses, and does not have a stable home is likely to become a life-course persistent offender.
5. “Communities That Care” is a policy that arose from Thornberry’s interactional theory.


1. TRUE
2, FALSE
3. TRUE
4. TRUE
5. FALSE

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