Substance Abuse and delinquency

1. Compare and contrast the three methods for collecting juvenile crime data. Of the three, which do you find more reliable?
2. Compare and contrast how the positivist and classical schools of criminology explain juvenile delinquency. Which do you think is better at explaining delinquency and why?
3. Explain how both social learning theory and Merton's five modes of adaptation attempt to explain juvenile delinquency. Which do you think does a better job at explaining juvenile crime?
4. What are the differences between male and female delinquency? How does the system treat girls differently than boys?
5. According to the text, what are some of the reasons juveniles join gangs? What are primary and tertiary methods of gang prevention?
6. What are the factors that make up both individual and social drug-abuse? How are drug abuse and juvenile delinquency related?
7. List and describe the differences between the juvenile and adult justice systems. Do you see a need to reform the juvenile justice system? If so how/why? If not, defend the current system.
8. Why could it be argued that delinquency doesn’t exist in many developing nations?

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