Youth Gangs In American Society 4th Edition By Randall G. Shelden – Test Bank

CHAPTER 10
Test Bank

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. This strategy refers to efforts to enhance, modify, or change relationships among different groups and organizations within a city to better cope with various problems.
a. Social intervention
b. Community organization
c. Opportunities provision
d. Suppression

ANS: B REF: p. 287

2. This strategy has been used for many years to deal with youth and related problems. They include the very popular (and, incidentally, not very successful) strategies of youth outreach and street-work counseling.
a. Social intervention
b. Community organization
c. Opportunities provision
d. Suppression

ANS: A REF: p. 287

3. This strategy describes a variety of strictly law-enforcement strategies, including special patrols by police gang units, special prosecution efforts within the district attorney’s office, legislation that targets gang activities, and development and implementation of information systems.
a. Social intervention
b. Community organization
c. Opportunities provision
d. Suppression

ANS: D REF: p. 287

4. This strategy is an attempt to provide jobs, job training, and education, particularly for the most at-risk youths.
a. Social intervention
b. Community organization
c. Opportunities provision
d. Suppression

ANS: C REF: p. 287

5. The majority of prevention programs fall into one of three broad categories: 1) early childhood and family interventions, 2) school-based interventions, and:
a. Law enforcement interventions
b. Legislative interventions
c. Community based interventions
d. Government interventions

ANS: C REF: p.289

6. All are guidelines that national comprehensive programs should follow except:
a. Strengthen the family
b. Support core institutions such as schools
c. Promote delinquency prevent programs
d. Be focused for low income neighborhoods

ANS: D REF: p. 290

7. According to OJJDP programs should focus on risk factors. Which is not a risk factor as identified by the OJJDP?
a. Family influences
b. School experiences
c. Individual age
d. Community influences

ANS: C REF: p. 291

8. Building strong bonding with the long-term goal of assisting children in developing into healthy adults is a description of:
a. Social development strategy
b. Social bonding theory
c. Social ecology
d. Research based community programs

ANS: A REF: p. 292

9. The community approach to the social development strategy has 4 specific steps. All are currently used steps except:
a. Involving key community leaders
b. Forming a community board or task force
c. Securing funding through private investors
d. Planning and evaluation methods

ANS: C REF: p. 292

10. What program was developed by the National Guard in 1993 to try to change at risk youth’s lives?
a. CRASH
b. GREAT
c. DARE
d. Youth ChalleNGe

ANS: D REF: p. 293

11. According to the text, much of the public’s response to youth gangs has been to:
a. Create programs
b. Create harsher penalties for gang members
c. Ignore the problem as nothing works
d. Target inner city neighborhoods with positive messages

ANS: A REF: p. 295