Delinquency Prevention Interventions Have Been Found to Increase Delinquency Because

question 74

Multiple Choice

delinquency prevention interventions have been found to increase delinquency because they

• A) teach specific techniques for certain crimes.
• B) bring high-risk adolescents together to form a clique.
• C) are facilitated by teachers who are "out of touch."
• D) are attended only by adolescent-limited delinquents.

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Definitions:

Population's Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variation in a distribution of a population's values, indicating how much individual scores differ from the population mean.

One-Sample Z-Test

A statistical test used to determine whether the mean of a sample significantly differs from a known or hypothesized population mean, under the assumption of known variance.

Effect Size

A numerical measure that quantifies the size of a phenomenon or the intensity of the connection between variables.

Standard Error

A statistical term that measures the accuracy with which a sample distribution represents a population by using standard deviation.