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Study Guide #2

Homicide

1.How many murders are committed by juvenile offenders in the United States?

a. Did you think that the number would be higher or lower?

2.How does juvenile homicide offending vary by age?

Extra credit: go to the table link. How many murders were committed by juveniles under the age of 14 yrs in 2011?

3.How does juvenile homicide offending vary by sex?

4.How does juvenile homicide offending vary by race?

5.What are the trends in homicides committed by juveniles involving firearms?

6.When are juveniles most likely to commit violent crime?

7.What time of day are adults and juveniles most likely to commit violent crimes?

The purpose of this question is to demonstrate your ability to navigate the site.

1.List the 12 behaviors that this table provides data?

2.What is the source of this data? (Hint: what is the name of the survey or data source?

3.Which racial/ethnic group was most likely to report carrying a gun to school in 2009.

1. Which race/ethnicity of high school students are most likely to feel unsafe at school in 2007?

a) Does this data surprise you?

1. At what grade are high school students most likely to be victimized?

2. Why do you think this is the grade level that youth are most victimized?

3. At what grade are they most likely to use marijuana or alcohol?

Self Report Data and Health Data on Adolescents

Go to the Centers for Disease Control

You will use the following table to answer the questions in this section. Download this table

Trends in the Prevalence of Behaviors that Contribute to Violence on School Property National YRBS: 1991–2011

The national Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) monitors priority health risk behaviors that contribute o the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems among youth and adults in the United States. The national YRBS is conducted every two years during the spring semester and provides data representative of 9th through 12th grade students in public and private schools throughout the United States

a.What percentage of students reported carrying a gun, knife or club on school property in 1993?

b.What percentage of students reported carrying a gun, knife or club on school property in 2011?

1. Did the percentage of students reporting that they carried a gun, knife, or club on school property increase or decrease between 1993 and 2003?

go to : scroll down and download the table to Bullying.

1. What percentage of students reported that they had experienced electronic bullying?

2. What percentage reported that they had thoughts of committing suicide in the last 12 months?

3. What percentage of students reported that they had had sexual intercourse?

4. What percentage of students reported that they had had sexual intercourse before the age of 13 years.

What percentage reported that they had engaged in emailing or texting while driving in a car or other vehicle in the last 30 days.

Monitoring the Future survey

Go to the site and download the table for Trends in the Availability of Drugs as Perceived by 8th graders. Mail the table as an attachment

1.Based on the data in the survey, what is the trend of the availability of getting marijuana as perceived by 8th graders? Indicate the percentages

Sources of Data

1. What is the UCR and what are 4 of the strengths of the UCR?

2. What are the weaknesses of the UCR?

3. What is the NCVS and what are its strengths of the NCVS?

4. What are the weaknesses of the NCVS?

5. What is the difference between the UCR and the NIBRS?

Multiple choice questions from text

1. The Uniform Crime Report (UCR) is compiled by the_____.

a. Federal Bureau of Investigation

b. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

c. Bureau of Justice Statistics

d. White House Commission on Crime and Delinquency

2.The _____ study is considered the national standard to measure substance abuse

trends among American teens.

a. National Crime Victimization

b. Monitoring the Future

c. Victims for Justice

d. the Uniform Crime Reports

1. A/An _____ produces a group of respondents who do not represent the nation as a

whole.

a. Underreporting

b. Sampling error

c. Over-reporting

d. Inadequate response format

1. Juvenile arrest rates began to climb in the and peaked in the .

a. 1960s, 1980s

b. 1970s, 1990s

c. 1980s, 1990s

d. 1990s, 2000s

d. National Gang Crime

1. When the UCR indicates that the murder rate was 5.8 in 2009, this means that almost six people in every _____ were murdered between January 1 and December 31, 2009.

a. 1,000

b. 10,000

c. 100,000

d. One million

1. Juvenile arrest rates began to climb in the and peaked in the .

a. 1960s, 1980s

b. 1970s, 1990s

c. 1980s, 1990s

d. 1990s, 2000s

6.Researchers at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (ISR)

conduct an annual national self-report survey called ___.

a. Safe and Health Child Survey

b. Project Anchor

c. Monitoring the Future

d. Delinquency Forecasting Study

1. Chronic juvenile offenders have an _____ percent chance of becoming adult offenders.

a. 75

b. 80

c. 50

d. 65