Explain intelligence and delinquency. What is your view on intelligence and delinquency? Do you believe there is a relationship? Why or why not?
What will be an ideal response?
• Psychologists have long been concerned with the development of intelligence and its subsequent relationship to behavior.
• It has been charged that children with low IQs are responsible for a disproportionate share of delinquency.
• Early criminologists believed that low intelligence was a major cause of delinquency; they thought that if it could be determined which individuals were less intelligent, it might be possible to identify potential delinquents before they committed socially harmful acts.
• Because social scientists had a captive group of subjects in training schools and penal institutions, studies began to appear that measured the correlation between IQ and crime by testing adjudicated juvenile delinquents.
• Delinquent juveniles were believed to be inherently substandard in intelligence and naturally inclined to commit more crimes than more intelligent people.
• Juvenile delinquents were used as a test group around which numerous theories about intelligence were built.
• Student views will vary.
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What will be an ideal response?
Which view of crime suggests that criminal law is structured to reflect the preferences and opinions of people who hold social power in a particular legal jurisdiction?
A. Moral entrepreneur B. Conflict view C. Consensus view D. Interactionist view
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Alcohol is more directly linked to violent crime than any other mood-altering substance. 2. Studies have shown that very few criminal offenders suffer from addiction to drugs or alcohol. 3. Police spend more than half of their time on alcohol-related offenses. 4. Far more fatalities each year are attributed to drug abuse than are linked to alcohol use. 5. Coca-Cola used to be made with the same ingredient from which cocaine is derived.
What percentage of crimes did larceny-thefts account for in the 2009 UCR?
a. 30% b. 17% c. 92% d. 68%