Contemporary Juvenile Issues

Catalog description

Focuses on contemporary juvenile issues offering a review of the nature, distribution, and explanations of youth crime, with particular attention given to the historical context of youth crime and the impact of societal factors serving as risks or protective factors for youth crime. The course also examines Gender, race, political factors, and official responses to youth crime. In addition, it explores interactions between family life and antisocial 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 young members of families. Further evaluates societal structures in place for dealing with Juvenile crime. Other important concepts to be explored will include gender, race, socioeconomic status, and violence within families as contributors to crime outcomes.