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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface - Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Chicago Tribune publish in 1993?
(a) In depth profiles of everyone killed.
(b) In depth profiles of children killed.
(c) In depth profiles of police killed.
(d) In depth profiles of adults killed.

2. What does Garbarino claim can lead us to humane treatment and rehabilitation?
(a) Learning about the life experiences of violent youth.
(b) Learning about substance abuse.
(c) Understanding the gang culture.
(d) Better education.

3. What does Garbarino claim is the point of change in the social decline of neighborhoods?
(a) The moment when gang membership rises above 6 percent.
(b) The moment when affluent leadership drops below 6 percent.
(c) The moment when teen pregnancy rises above 6 percent.
(d) The moment when parental monitoring falls below 6 percent.

4. What gift does Garbarino give Malcolm that makes him cry?
(a) A journal.
(b) A car.
(c) A book.
(d) A guitar.

5. What does Garbarino say is true about the middle class, white killers of the modern age?
(a) They too show an accumulation of risk factors.
(b) They are spoiled.
(c) They are not truly violent.
(d) They are copy cat killers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did some adults do in response to the announcing of the verdict in the Jonesboro trial?

2. How has social policy contributed to youth violence?

3. Having a history of _____________ increases the likelihood one will commit murder.

4. If a teen has been arrested, and has an already existing risk factor, the odds of the youth committing murder are ____________________.

5. Garbarino says that at risk populations don't cause the epidemic, they _____________________.

(see the answer key)

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