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
15.
The primary purpose of the ███████ ██ ██
Question Type
Implied
Purpose of passage
In a Problem-Analysis passage, if the author supports a solution, the purpose of the passage is to advocate for that solution. So the purpose of this passage is to advocate for a revised way of handling juvenile delinquency.
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prove that law ███████████ █████████ ████ ███ ██████████ ███ ████ ██████ █████ ██ ████████ ███████████
This doesn’t capture the author’s advocacy for a revised way of handling juvenile delinquency.
This doesn’t capture the author’s advocacy for a revised way of handling juvenile delinquency. How juvenile delinquents view themselves is simply a minor point the author cites to support the broader solution.
This doesn’t capture the author’s advocacy for a revised way of handling juvenile delinquency. Although the author does show he disagrees with the view that juvenile delinquency always leads to adult criminality, that isn’t the central point. The point is the author’s solution, which is based in part on his disagreement with that view.
This doesn’t capture the author’s advocacy for a revised way of handling juvenile delinquency. Although the author does show that he has thoughts about the causes of juvenile delinquency, the purpose of the passage is to advocate a solution in part based on an accurate understanding of those causes.
e
argue that a █████████ ██████ ██ ████████ ████████ ███████████ █████ █████ ██████ ███████ ███ ███████
This best captures the author’s purpose, which is to advocate for a revised way of handling juvenile delinquency.
Difficulty
96% of people who answer get this correct
This is a low-difficulty question.
It is similar in difficulty to other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%123
133
75%143
Analysis
Implied
Purpose of passage
Critique or debate
Law
Problem-analysis
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
0%
161
b
0%
154
c
3%
157
d
1%
149
e
96%
166
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