Explain the Term "Resiliency" as It Relates to Adolescent Offending

question 17

Essay

Explain the term "resiliency" as it relates to adolescent offending.

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Definitions:

Implicit Personality Theories

A set of beliefs, developed through experience, about how demographic characteristics and attitudes are interrelated.

Attribution Theory

A psychological theory that examines how individuals infer the causes of their own and others' behaviors and events.

Groupthink

A mental effect observed in groups, where the collective preference for agreement or uniformity leads to illogical or ineffective decisions.

Death Qualified

A term specifically relating to jurors who are deemed eligible to serve on a capital case because they express a willingness to consider both the death penalty and life imprisonment as sentencing options.