SOC/CRJS 316: test review extra

Summary of Risk Factors for Delinquency:

Individual Factors:
Verbal deficits, inattentiveness and impulsiveness, difficult temperament, limited conscientiousness, low intelligence and academic failure, risk-taking/sensation-seeking behavior, early onset of problem behaviors, aggression, social withdraw.

Family Factors:
Poor supervision, lax, harsh, and inconsistent discipline, child maltreatment, low levels of parent involvement, weak family attachments, parental attitude favorable to deviance, parental criminality and substance abuse, family conflict, including divorce.

School Factors:
Poor academic performance, weak social bonds to school, limited academic aspirations, truancy and dropping out, school with high rate of delinquency, low parent and community involvement in school.

Peer-Related Factors:
Association with delinquent peers, peer rejection, delinquent values and attitudes, learned techniques for committing crimes, gang membership

Neighborhood and Community Factors:
Social disorganization (poverty, residential mobility, social isolation), ineffective social control, delinquent and criminal subculture (tradition of crime, socialization, availability of drugs and access to weapons).