SOCI 305 - Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

3 credits
3 hours per week.

Consideration is given to a treatment of the concept and incidence of juvenile delinquency, theories of crime causation, and methods of punishment as a background for the study of juvenile delinquency. Emphasis is placed upon factors of causation as revealed through personal, family and community situations conditioning delinquent behavior; analysis of concrete cases and juvenile delinquency; and critical examination of current methods of dealing with juvenile offenders and programs for the prevention of delinquency. [Formerly Juvenile Delinquency and Its Social Treatment].

Offered (AS NEEDED)