Explain the relationship between age and crime?

What will be an ideal response?


• The older a person is, the less likely he or she will exhibit criminal behavior.
• Self- reported studies confirm that most people are involved in some form of criminal behavior— however "harmless"— during their early years.
• Regardless of gender, race, intelligence, or class— juveniles will commit fewer crimes as they grow older, known as aging
• This aging phenomenon is explained by certain events, such as marriage, employment, and military service, which force delinquents to "grow up" and forgo criminal acts.

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Rawls asserts it is the business of ______ to establish fundamental principles that would govern a morally good society.

a. Kantianism b. Egoism c. Moral theory d. Ethics

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The application of ______ focused on the availability of goals and means.

a. anomie theory b. strain theory c. differential association theory d. relative deprivation theory

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The practice of using properly constructed screening tools to identify risk factors for delinquency in order to address them before a young person engages in misbehavior is called:

a. risk prevention. b. needs assessment. c. risk study. d. risk assessment.

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The central goal of the community corrections approach is that of:

A) crime control. B) reintegration. C) curing crime. D) incarceration. E) deterrence.

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