Final examination
Final Examination – Summer 2021
20% of your calculated grade / 100 points
This examination will require three hours to complete. There are four articles you will be required to read in conjunction with this examination. The URL’s are listed at the end of these instructions. For most students, one hour is sufficient time to read these articles, process them, and take appropriate notes. This will leave you with two hours to answer the actual questions. Do not spend excessive time reading these articles, as it will subtract from your time available to write. You should also not rush into writing this test, until you have thought out the concepts and issues to discuss.
When writing your answers to these questions, you do not need to cite your answers in MLA format. However, I do expect that you will reference your answers and the appropriate sources of data from the articles. Also remember that this is a theory based class. You are expected to correctly reference and apply all data from our lectures involving social, psychological and biological theories of deviance. If you write your answers in a format that reflects your personal opinions, rather than scientific theory and analysis, you will fail this examination. You are expected to use the knowledge and information you used this semester to formulate your answers. Good Luck!
Topic: Juvenile Sex Offenders and their Proliferation in Houston Texas
Reading Reverence List:
1) Study: Many sex offenders are kids themselves
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-01-07/child-sex-abuse/52431616/1
2) Juveniles wait years to get past sex crimes
3) Juvenile Sexual Offenders: Continuous Research Needed
http://www.patc.com/weeklyarticles/juvenile_sexual_offender.shtml
4) Sex crimes by juvenile offenders are on the rise in Harris County (Houston)
For this examination, you are asked to examine the rise in sex offender rates by juveniles in the Houston, Texas area. Despite declines in crime rates by juveniles overall, the number of juvenile on juvenile sexual assaults is on the rise. Your assignment is to analyze this date, and formulate a comprehensive plan to respond to this increase in rates, based on the theories of juvenile delinquency you have learned this semester. As a comprehensive plan, your analysis MUST include a multi-faceted theoretical approach to reversing these rates. This test is NOT about your personal opinion of sex crimes, or your own sense of justice or vengeance. Rather, this is a theoretical approach. You should defend your plan with statistical data from our lectures, as well your own theoretical studies. At a minimum, your test should include the following information:
1) (25% of grade) A sociological, psychological and biological analysis of this type of deviant behavior, based on your individual theory.
2) (25% of grade) An explanation of your theories in light of national data, and the data from Houston, Texas
3) (50% of grade) The formulation of a comprehensive plan to combat these issues for Harris County, Texas. This plan must incorporate implementation proposals that match your chosen theoretical approach to explaining this deviance. For example, you cannot advocate a Social Bond theory as an explanation, and then suggest a policy change that reflects Social Control or a Biological approach. You can, however, use complimenting parts of different theories, so long as they do not conflict with one another. Make sure that your plan addresses this deviant behavior on ALL levels, including at the family, school / peer, social service, community and criminal justice levels.
You may complete your examination as an addition to this document, or as a completely separate document. Good luck, pace yourself, and embrace the theories you have adopted!
Final Examination
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Summer 202
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20
% of your calculated grade
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This examination will require three hours to complete. There are four articles you will be required to
read in conjunction with this examination. The URL’s are listed at the end of these instructions. For
most students, one hour is sufficient time
to read these articles, process them, and take appropriate
notes. This will leave you with two hours to answer the actual questions. Do not spend excessive time
reading these articles, as it will subtract from your time available to write. You should al
so not rush into
writing this test, until you have thought out the concepts and issues to discuss.
When writing your answers to these questions, you do not need to cite your answers in MLA format.
However,
I do expect that you will reference your ans
wers and the appropriate sources of data from the
articles
.
Also remember that this is a theory based class. You are expected to correctly reference and
apply all data from our lectures involving social, psychological and biological theories of deviance.
If you
write your answers in a format that reflects your personal opinions, rather than scientific theory and
analysis, you will fail this examination. You are expected to use the knowledge and information you
used this semester to formulate your answer
s.
Good Luck!
Topic: Juvenile Sex Offenders and their Proliferation in Houston Texas
Reading Reverence List:
1)
Study: Many sex offenders are kids themselves
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012
-
01
-
07/child
-
sex
-
abuse/52431616/1
2)
Juveniles wait years to get past sex crimes
http://www.chron.com/news/houston
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texas/article/Juveniles
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wait
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years
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to
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get
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past
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sex
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crimes
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1601637.php
3)
Juvenile Sexual Offenders: Continuous Research Needed
http://www.p
atc.com/weeklyarticles/juvenile_sexual_offender.shtml
4)
Sex crimes by juvenile offenders are on the rise in Harris County
(Houston)
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ttp://www.chron.com/news/houston
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texas/article/Sex
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crimes
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by
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juvenile
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offenders
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on
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the
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rise
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in
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3498937.php
Final Examination – Summer 2021
20% of your calculated grade / 100 points
This examination will require three hours to complete. There are four articles you will be required to
read in conjunction with this examination. The URL’s are listed at the end of these instructions. For
most students, one hour is sufficient time to read these articles, process them, and take appropriate
notes. This will leave you with two hours to answer the actual questions. Do not spend excessive time
reading these articles, as it will subtract from your time available to write. You should also not rush into
writing this test, until you have thought out the concepts and issues to discuss.
When writing your answers to these questions, you do not need to cite your answers in MLA format.
However, I do expect that you will reference your answers and the appropriate sources of data from the
articles. Also remember that this is a theory based class. You are expected to correctly reference and
apply all data from our lectures involving social, psychological and biological theories of deviance. If you
write your answers in a format that reflects your personal opinions, rather than scientific theory and
analysis, you will fail this examination. You are expected to use the knowledge and information you
used this semester to formulate your answers. Good Luck!
Topic: Juvenile Sex Offenders and their Proliferation in Houston Texas
Reading Reverence List:
1) Study: Many sex offenders are kids themselves
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-01-07/child-sex-abuse/52431616/1
2) Juveniles wait years to get past sex crimes
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Juveniles-wait-years-to-get-past-sex-
crimes-1601637.php
3) Juvenile Sexual Offenders: Continuous Research Needed
http://www.patc.com/weeklyarticles/juvenile_sexual_offender.shtml
4) Sex crimes by juvenile offenders are on the rise in Harris County (Houston)
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Sex-crimes-by-juvenile-offenders-on-the-
rise-in-3498937.php