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Discuss the concept of the chronic offender. Do you agree that early, repeated engagement in delinquency is the best predictor of future adult criminality? Do you think that "careers in delinquency" is an apropos descriptor for this group of youthful offenders?  Explain your position. ​


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Susceptibility

The likelihood or tendency to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing or condition.

Egocentrism

The inability to differentiate between self and other, often resulting in viewing the world solely from one's own perspective.

Conservation

The understanding that certain properties of an object or substance remain the same even when its appearance changes, a concept grasped during the concrete operational stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

Mass

A measure of the amount of matter in an object, fundamental in physics and chemistry for understanding the properties of substances.

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