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CRJ 201 - Juvenile Delinquency


Last Date of Approval: Spring 2019

3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0

Course Description:
This course is designed for students majoring in criminal justice or transferring to a regent university. This course explores the area of juvenile delinquency, its history, theories, laws, and the criminal justice system’s response in caring for, treating, and controlling delinquent behavior. This course will help students refine their critical thinking skills as they evaluate various topics and concepts while searching for underlying connections between the concepts, which is a skill that should be beneficial in criminal justice careers.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: None

Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face to face, online

Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.

Course Fees: none

Common Course Assessment(s): none

Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes:

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the definition, extent, and nature and control of juvenile delinquency in the United States;
  • Examine the historical, biological, sociological, psychological, and ecological theories of delinquency;
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the classification and various influences of delinquency, including family, schools, licit and illicit drugs, and peers; and
  • Demonstrate an understanding of how juvenile institutions, probation, and aftercare programs work.

Objectives:

  • Define juvenile delinquency and the extent of juvenile delinquency in the United States
  • Explain social and historical perspectives of delinquency
  • Explain contemporary biological theories of delinquency
  • Explain psychological explanations of delinquency
  • Explain sociological explanations of delinquency
  • Describe the influence of the family on delinquency 
  • Describe the influence of the schools on delinquency
  • Describe the influence of licit and illicit drugs on delinquency
  • Describe the influence of peers on delinquency
  • Describe the influence of dispositional programs on future behavior
  • Explain how law enforcement and juvenile court interact with juvenile offenders



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