SOC 230 - Juvenile Delinquency

Credit(s) 3.00
Lecture Hours: 3.00
This course provides an in-depth exploration of the causes and contributing factors of juvenile delinquency, with a focus on both societal and individual influences. Students will examine the role of corrective institutions, therapeutic interventions, and rehabilitative approaches in modifying delinquent behaviors. Emphasis is placed on understanding the development of individual personalities through early family dynamics, socialization processes, and the impact of dysfunctional family environments. The course also explores how antisocial and aggressive behaviors emerge from early exposure to adverse family and social conditions, and how intervention strategies can mitigate these behaviors in at-risk youth. This course is cross listed as CRJ 201.

Corequisite(s): SOC 110
SLOs:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Understand social science methods used in analyzing social phenomena in the diversity of human perspectives.
Use basic juvenile delinquency terms and concepts appropriately.
Demonstrate a basic understanding of the historical development of juvenile delinquency.
Explain the major theoretical positions of the different schools of juvenile delinquency.
Debate the techniques used to collect crime data.
Distinguish between biological, psychological, and sociological theories of juvenile delinquency.
Recognize the different crime typologies that exist.