List some of the childhood risk factors for persistent ...

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List some of the childhood risk factors for persistent delinquency. What factors do you believe have the greatest impact, why?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

How does the government define poverty?
 
  a. 32,000 a year for a family of four
  b. 23,000 a year for a family of three
  c. 23,000 a year for a family of four
  d. 20,000 a year for a family of three

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Answer to Question 1

 Individual factors: early antisocial behavior, emotional factors such as high behavioral activation and lower behavioral inhibition; poor cognitive development; low intelligence; hyperactivity
 School and community factors: failure to bond to school; poor academic performance; low academic performance; low academic aspirations; living in a poor family; neighborhood disadvantage; disorganized neighborhoods; concentration of delinquent peer groups; access to weapons
 Family factors: parenting, maltreatment, family violence, divorce, parental psychopathology; familial antisocial behaviors; teenage parenthood; family structure; large family size
 Peer factors: association with deviant peers, peer rejection
 Student view will vary.

Answer to Question 2

c

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