Families and Youth Crime

Catalog description

Examines contemporary families and their linkages to crime from a theoretical and scientific approach. Explores interactions between family life and anti-social behavior. Family factors including family structure, domestic interactions and conflict, intergenerational aspects of criminal behavior, family relationships and socialization as crime promoting or crime prevention mechanisms on members of families will be examined. Further evaluates societal structures in place for dealing with Juvenile and Adult crime and how that contributes to intergenerational and other crimes. Other important concepts to be explored will include gender, race, socioeconomic status, and violence within families as contributors to crime outcomes.