Much of mainstream thinking concerning juvenile delinquency in Canada and the United States is based on the assumption that if uncorrected it automatically leads to adult crime and should thus be severely punished, usually by some form of incarceration, before it becomes an ingrained behavior pattern. ███
Traditional view ·If juvenile delinquency isn't corrected, it leads to adult crime
Thus, juvenile delinquency should be punished, usually by jail.
Critique of criminologists ·Don't distinguish between what young people think of as criminal and what they think of as fun, but illegal
Young people often don't think of what they do as criminal, even if they acknowledge that it's illegal. Once these people are jailed as criminals, they might start to see themselves as criminals.
Author's approach ·Rehabilitation, rather than jailing
Ex: make thieves return their stolen merchandise and apologize. Goal is to teach young people the values of the larger society. We can do this without jailing them and without letting them get away without any punishment at all.
Passage Style
Critique or debate
Problem-analysis
11.
The author's attitude toward current ███ ███████████ ████████ ███████ ████ ████████ ███████████ ███ ████ ██████████ ██ █████████ ██
Question Type
Author’s attitude
Implied
The author’s attitude toward current policies is expressed in the last paragraph: “we do not need to remove delinquents from the community, but rather rehabilitate them when they do wrong.” So the author disagrees with current policies.
a
optimistic that these ████████ ██████ ██ ████ █████████ █████
This doesn’t capture the author’s disagreement with current policies.
b
certain that these ████████ █████ ███████ ████████ ██████████ ████
Too strong. The author suggests that these policies “may” encourage offenders to think of themselves as criminals. But this doesn’t imply the author thinks these policies are “certain” to cause further youth crimes.
c
confident that these ████████ ███████ ███ ████ ██ ███████
Anti-supported; the author disagrees with current policies about how to handle juvenile delinquency.
d
convinced that these ████████ ██████ ██ ███████
Supported.
e
confident that these ████████ ████ ██ ██████ ██ ████████ ███████████
Not supported. The author suggests that these policies “may” encourage offenders to think of themselves as criminals.
Difficulty
93% of people who answer get this correct
This is a slightly challenging question.
It is slightly harder than the average question in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%125
136
75%147
Analysis
Author’s attitude
Implied
Critique or debate
Law
Problem-analysis
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
0%
—
b
5%
159
c
0%
146
d
93%
166
e
1%
158
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