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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is most important in the effect of parents on children?
(a) How the parent's subtle actions hurt the child.
(b) How the parent's subtle actions shape the child.
(c) How parental behavior shames the child.
(d) How parental behavior organizes the child's life.

3. What does the author admit he is trying to do by writing this book?
(a) Make sense of youth violence.
(b) Make sense of grief.
(c) Help heal youth.
(d) Help the victims of youth violence.

4. What do these various options for early violent behavior often depend on?
(a) An availability of social resources.
(b) An end to any drug addiction.
(c) A stable home environment.
(d) A willingness on the part of the child.

5. What is one reason homicide rates seem to have declined?
(a) Fewer homicides are actually reported.
(b) There are fewer homicides than ten years ago.
(c) Medical technology saves some that would have died of their wounds ten years ago.
(d) There are fewer guns on the streets than ten years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are some traits that put a child at risk for becoming aggressive?

2. What does the term 'bad seed' imply?

3. What is the name of the game children in 'war zone' neighborhoods play with blocks?

4. What is Garbarino trying to point out throughout these chapters, in terms of the cause of aggressive behaviors?

5. What is the leading cause of death for young minority males?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the first step in how the 'disease' of youth violence spread in the United States.

2. Explain how this problem in small cities in magnified by the educational system.

3. Explain what the Chicago Tribune did in 1993 - 1994, and what Garbarino's son's reaction was to his father's concerns.

4. Explain what class and race bias are, and how they contribute to a lack of concern for youth violence in minority areas.

5. Explain the effect of the historical and cultural patterns of the South on the 'war zones' of larger urban cities.

6. What does the social biological perspective say about why children face different opportunities and risks for development?

7. Explain what researchers Patrick Tolan and Nancy Guerra discover are the most effective treatments for delinquency and criminally violent youth.

8. Describe the concept of the tipping point.

9. Explain the accumulation approach to risk factors for youth violence, and how it helps lend hope for helping these young men.

10. Explain the tie between neurological problems and violence, and why Garbarino blames, again, medical technologies for the rise in neurological issues in children.

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