Rosemary Sarri claimed that the attitudes and ideologies of juvenile justice practitioners administering the law might lead officials to give females longer sentences than males. Under what guise are such practitioners operating?
A) punishing the parents of female juveniles
B) protecting family members from violent female siblings
C) protecting the female juveniles
D) narrowing the gap between lower-class and middle-class delinquency rates
(Question #2) Revocation generally is based on the attitudes of the youths.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
(Question #3) Which of the following would be inaccurate regarding gender inequality and processing of the female delinquent?
A) Many girls appear in court for criminal type offenses that had previously been classified as status offenses.
B) Female status offenders are more likely than their male counterparts to be petitioned to formal court proceedings.
C) Adolescent females receive discriminatory treatment because of society's disapproval of sexual activity.
D) Girls are less likely to be detained and they're held for shorter periods than boys.
(Question #4) Aftercare officers, more so than probation officers, are looked on even more often as law enforcement figures because they can return offenders to institutional confinement.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
(Question #5) Which of the following factors, affecting social construction of crime data on juvenile females' increased rates of violence, refers to zero tolerance policies?
A) rediscovery B) bootstrapping C) upcriming D) relabeling
(Question #6) Parole or aftercare officers have much in common with probation officers.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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