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Choose a specific juvenile justice reform program, initiative, and or policy and create a wiki to explain it. Then add to two of your colleague’s wikis. Make sure you check back in and see what has been added to your wiki and note whether you agree or disagree with the addition and why

According to...both victim and the offender are ignored, and the social environment regulates criminal involvement

The extent to which a theory “enjoys real-life and empirical support” refers to:
1. Evidence of validity.
2. Falsifiability
3. Predictability
4. Plausibility

The … theory states that everybody has the potential to become a criminal, that most people are controlled by their bond to society, and that motivations towards criminal behaviour are curbed through learned behaviour.
1. social control
2. social disorganisation
3. social action
4. strain

Population explosion is far greater in urban than in rural areas and urban areas are placed under increasing pressure to support the growing population. This statement refers to … as a general factor that contributes to crime.
1. rapid migration from rural to urban areas
2. inadequate welfare services
3. rapid urbanisation
4. the population structure

Strain and social isolation are unique elements of lower-class culture. These elements result in disorganised neighbourhoods and are linked to the … theory.
1. social control
2. social disorganisation
3. cultural deviance
4. social action

The concept of … is an attempt to account for the acquisition of maintenance of criminal behaviour in terms of contact with particular environments and social groups.
1. criminogenic risk factors
2. external events
3. biological dimension
4. differential association

The motivation theories that describe and explain how behaviour is started, energised, sustained and directed comprises the …theories.
1. social learning, choice and control
2. motivation, intent and power-control
3. trait, social and moral reasoning
4. instrumental, content and process

The … theories explain how people become offenders through learning.
1. consensus
2. process
3. structure
4. feminist

Which one of the following options reflects variations in crime rates with regard to racial and ethnic groups?
1. Social, educational and economic differences
2. Cultural, political and economic differences
3. Educational, social and political differences
4. Economic, social and cultural differences