Author Question: List some of the childhood risk factors for persistent delinquency. What factors do you believe have ... (Read 37 times)

s.tung · **on:** Aug 13, 2018

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

kjo;oj · **Reply #1 on:** Aug 13, 2018

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